Daily Worker
January 31, 1925
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Feige uations has * * 2 . = sso a erin 2. 3 * per yeat . t a » oe . rf oh a 1 hing 1 eal a pal Pace" eany sass. 2 hus a have |, ~* 2,000/Récrults D sa ID ag Sah J 1 * : ee Sater ae, xo ek 1 e > ae — 72 — ay 2 a & Nr 8 eats N be et A * n. 1 A * 1 ai | eae 5 Bae at “or he patty hand af mahite” (our comrades“ ane June the party has igainod [19426 ran rere, which ater 76,000; 15 tranes have bees raised as Party subscription, and a op faves franes for a special party loan. . 2 Paris. . 1 e ee 1418970 When you an “Ad” ee : et for the: DAILY WORKER. ae 3 ö } : SHOP NUCLEI MAKES: PROGRE S IN NEW YORK 3 to The Daily Werker) ; — NRW ORK, Jan. 29.—The campaign for the reorganisation ot, the New mie 3 on the basis of shop nuclei is proceeding in earnest. » Eat 2 25. tio “a area v 17 addfess of the cl © 3 i 5 . 1 58 Le _ confer: Of activities reorganisation “been: started in the area bounded ob a i be i ra e a alin ee lesan Raat cis branch's: clubrooms situated’ in the heart ‘ot this factory e ents os cone eee. tives together with all other com- rades who are able to assist in this work have been invited to attena. Any comrade who is able to aid in work should attend this ‘meeting if he has not officially been in- ‘This conference which taker place in the evening at 8 o'clock will at 208 E. 12th St. It all the comrades in the New York ‘ict will buckle down to the task re them the New York district. can K shop nuclei work. The — 04 should therefore not forget, one, the campaign headquarters at Fourth. Ave. and, two, the confe. ence that takes place Tuesday eve- 2 7. U. E.. n * * 12th, Bt. » oo * tae yy 1 . » ae n tee 1 7 * * U t the 1 > 7 a Fe 4 - * * * 7 * 2 + *. E. vogos Together. with. Budenny he organ. ized the ret Re _ cavalry - troops, which. smashed the attacks. of Yu- | deniteh, en and the Be hen ener 8 Coolidge Senators * 4 Play “Postal Pay B * to The-D Daily Worker) nt Coolidge. informally sent word to the senate today that the Moses bill-increasing the pay of post office. .employes will be vetoed if amended -so: ‘as to reduce the postal rates proposed in the Moses Bill. The Moses bill the pay. of the postal workers but also increases the mailing rates. * The republican senators today defeated an amendment to the Moses Bill restoring the 1920 rates to maga- zines and newspapers. The two farmer-labor candidates, Magnus John- son and. H. Suipstoad of Minnesota voted against the amendment with the ee. senators. r amendment proposed by senator “McKellar of Tennessee was also defeated, by a vote of 31 to 46. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” . |*sanitariums” for which she 18 col- teens money | “contain the wounded | Ge - _ WASHINGTON, D.C. Jan. 29—|Bsthonia, a 2 5 on 85 as 2 5 ‘a a 1 2 1 “Baron” Wrangel, in) ew ‘with a Russian has an army of twenty-five men who II to fight u said that the and slek soldiers Kune by my husband.” Wrangel’s army, after being 8 from southern Russia by the Soviet Red Army in the campaign in which Budenny, the Communist leader, took a loading part. f 2 with the Russian fleet to Con- antinople. The fleet, until recently rtered in Tiflis, French Algieres, is turned over to the Soviet govern- by the French, following that try’s recognition of Soviet Rus- la. French and British officers and * promoted Wrangel’s counter- ‘revolutionary attack on Soviet Russia. Tinte Balkan Reds. From Constantinople, Wrangel’s ban- dit army was dcattered over the Bal- kaps to fight the Communists in the Balkan states. Wrangel’s troops took part in the fascisti violence in Bul- Faria which overthrew the Stamboulis- ky peasant government. His troops have been at the beck and call of French and British imperialism, and are A by the French and igel’s troops were also used in | attacks on the Communists in Serbia, Jugo- Slavia, Roumania and ' Socialists Help Imperialists. The fact that the imperialist gov- ernments of Europe, in alliance with the Second International are mak ing a concerted drive to raise Amer- ican money, shows that the capitalist governments of Europe are preparing further fascisti attacks on the Com- munists despite recognition of Russia. At the same time that France; under the capitalist tool Herriot, and the Baldwin government of England are dickering for Russian oil and offering diplomatic recognition as quietly as ble, they are collecting their far- armies for another onslaught on the Communists in the Balkans and Soviet Russia. - United Front Against Russia. The socialist party of America has entered this imperialistic alliance, and is Sponsoring the tour of the tool of 5 br e in this city. (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW. YORK CITY, Jan. 29.—The Lenin Memorial meeting, on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 1, at 2 p. m., at Madison promises to be the biggest demonstration of 9 attacks on Soviet Russia by the international capitalists, ere Communist Party and the Soviet Republic, the increased paar er of the workers everywhere, all these things have enthu: created a tremendous revival of revolutionary sentiment and It is therefore very likely that the celebration this year will -the wonderful de- of last year. tor the principles * 8 principles of nnn Galle From Prison. for the first anniver- of Sunday, Feb. 1 an unusual one this year. C. E. whose case is now before - ‘ * * * mer cundi 1 tor e will results from among the rank and file of the Jewish workers of New York City. Full Symphony Orchestra. A full symphony orchestra will fill the garden with Russian and classic music. Tickets are now on sale at the fol- lowing stations: 208 E. 12th St., 153 E. Broadway, 231. E. 14th St., 127 University Place, Drug Store, Madison Ave. and 111th St., 1837 Wilkins Ave. Brooklyn: 46 Ten Bych St., 764 40th St, Drug Store, Moore and Graham Ave., 1817 Pitkin Ave., Mermaid Ave. and 38rd St., Coney Island. _ Fear for Horthy. BUDAPEST—A close guard wae maintained today over the regent, Ad- miral Horthy, following an attempt on his life at a small railway station near Budapest. The shot fired at him went wude. | PREPARATIONS FoR LENIN” MEMORIAL UNDER HEAVY SAIL Fearing that they may meet the fate of last year when they were turned away together with thous- ands from: the overfilled Madison Square Garden at the Lenin me moral meeting, the workers are buy- ing tickets in advance and are pre- paring to gather at the Garden long before the hour scheduled fer the event this year. What grips the workers in New Vork as it does the working class of the whole world is the tremend- | ous revolutionary vitality of the great leader who inspired and car- ried thru the most marvellous uprie of the oppressed masses record- on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 1, as they did a year ago? Speakers: Ruthen- berg, Dunne, Olgin. Russian speak- er, Oriental speaker and others. Rather ask H we will be able to find a place big enough to take care of the overflow. Classes. A. B. C. of Communism, every Tuesday night. I. Stamler, instructor, 11847 Boston Road. Every comrade who has not had a thoro training in Marxian economics, should take this course. English, Elementary, Monday night, 511 E. 173rd St. English Advanced, Saturday after. noon, 2-4, 511 E. 173rd St.; son, instructor. Lectures. Lectures every Sunday night af 1347 Boston Road, 8 p. m. Affairs. Section Vetcherinka, concert and ball, Feb. 28, for purpose of raising funds for library. Ely Jacob- NEW YORK BUILDERS’ CORNER Conducted by KATTERFELD. or the C. I. magazine. den meeting Sunday afternoon. the DAILY WORKER. (Continued on page 2) WORKER Insurance Policies. HE Lenin Memorial meeting at Madison Square Garden Sunday after- noon offers a tremendous opportunity to the DAILY WORKER bulid- ers. Fifteen thousand workers will be there. they will testify to their interest in Communism. that-can read English should be a subscriber for the DAILY WORKER, of should buy it on the news stands. vassed by some DAILY WORKER bullder before he leaves the “Garden.” Bring your Tool Box along, and use the “tools” at that meeting. If you haven't got ene, hunt up the DAILY WORKER New York agent there, and get a supply of subcards. In the crowd you will see many whom you know. Tackle each one for a sub. WORKER, then land him for the Workers’ Monthly or the Young Worker And don’t confine your operations to your friends. You never can tell whether they will subscribe for the DAILY WORKER until you ask. 80 get the habit of asking. impress on all these people that it is not enough to pay emotional homage to Lenin at a Memorial meeting, but that they should be Leninist propagandiags, and for this purpose they need the official organ of the Leninist movement in the United States, the DAILY WORKER. do this work with the proper spirit we'll get the ten pen cent increaase in the subscription list that is required for maintaining the New York edition of the DAILY WORKER right there at that Madison Square Gar- By their very presence Every one of them Every one of them should be can- if he’s already getting the DAILY if you'll And lest you forget: Take some pledge bianks with you for DAILY » tt . 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— ——— — * German Workers to Be Used to Scab on Us (Special to The Dally Worker). NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 29.— Almost simultaneously with the report of the dropping of many thousands of workers from the plants of the General Electric company in Schenectady, comes the announcement of the offer of $10,000,000 worth of bonds of the Siemens & Halske and Siemens-Schuckert Werke of Germany on the American bond market. In this announcement these two firms are advertised as covering “the entire electrical field.” They are said to employ 85,000 operatives in 26 fac tories. Furthermore it is significantly stated that “forty per cent of the pro- duction is exported.” More Unemployment Certain. The unemployed electrical workers of Schenectady will do well to study and consider this announcement which is made by a group of the leading bankers in the United States. The firms mentioned above manufacture nearly every article manufactured by local electrical firms: electrical ma- chinery and appliances for lighting, power, traction and electro-chemical purposes, dynamos, turbines, wires and cables, automatic and manual tele phones, telegraph, signaling and elee tromedical apparatus and radio equip- ment. The workers in these firms are paid a miserable wage and work at least two or more hours per day longer then the American workers. Under this low labor cost the interests which now control the German firms, and which are unquestionably the same as those behind the General Blectric company and the largest electrical concerns in this country, can well at- ford to shut down their American works and sell at a greater profit the products of the German plants. A Lesson In Capitalism. This news is, no doubt, a distinct shock to the workers of Schenectady, who probably patriotically supported the war against Germany and voted for Dawes and Coolidge. Perhaps it will open their eyes to the fact that capitalism knows no national boun- daries or patriotism in its ruthless ex- ploitation of the workers and that the workers of America must fight shoulder to shoulder with the workers of Germany and the entire world not only against the Dawes plan, but also against international capitalism as well. DOHENY GOES AFTER THE MEXICAN TEAPOT WHICH HE BOUGHT FROM CALLES MEXICO CITY, Jan. 29.—Edward L. Doheny arrived in Mexico City Monday and will meet President Calſes soon. He is here to discuss proposed oll legislation with the Mexican government. The Huasteca company, controt- led by Doheny, Intends to bulld new refineries and start stronger drill- ing operations when the future pol- icy of the government is outlined and Doheny is given an inside track en oll field grabs in exchange for his loan to Calles given last year to aid in crushing the British oil revolt led by De la Huerta. When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. those responsible for the ‘Sharrock and Secretary Fish of the (Special to the Dally Worker) PEKING, Jan. 28.—Dr. Sun Yat Sen, Chinese leader, operated on for not yet undergone the major opera- tlon contemplated, physicians an- nounced „ His condition is critical they sald, and fears are held that he will not recover from the ilinesa, the result of an abscessed liver. ; PEKING, Jan. 29.—Dr. Sun Yat Sen, China dictator, operated on for liver trouble at the American Rock- efelier hospital here, passed a com- fortable night, a hospital bulletin said today. His pulee was 108 and his tem- perature almost normal. The pa- tient was announced as free from pain and taking nourishment. The surgical wound Was reported “pro- gressing satisfactorily.” UNION OFFICERS GET INJUNCTION AGAINST MEMBER Detroit Carpenters Re- pudiate Act (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Jan, 29.—The few remaining supporters of Hutcheson and the reactionaries in Carpenters’ Local 19 were driven to the side of those in revolt against the expulsion policy by the injunction forbidding a member, Wm. Reynolds, from attend- ing union meetings, secured in the name of the Brotherhood by the fakers in charge locally. Those who disagreed on political and economic questions with Reynolds, the expelled member form No. 2140, are forced by the attitude of the re- actionaries to take part in the strug- gle to maintain their constitutional rights and to carry on the traditional fight of the American Federation of Labor against the injunction. Local Censures Injunction Getter. A special meeting of Local Union No. 19 voted unanimously to censure injunction and to demand its immediate with- drawal. A former appointee of Hutcheson, Wm. Shipp, running for business agent, was defeated by the candidate supported by the left wing by a vote of 88 to 38. A motion to support the action of Local Union No. 2140 in sustaining Reynolds in his membership and as president was refused recognition by Hutcheson’s tool in the chair. An ap- peal was taken from his decision, but President Ball ruled the appeal out of order and declared the meeting ad- journed. The meeting broke up in confusion. District Council! Officers Got Injunction It was learned today that President Detroit council, and stoolpigeon Bot- terill representing Hutcheson, signed the bill of complaint to secure the in- junction. Sharrock and Fish signed the bill of complaint as individuals, also just to show that they prostitute themselves for love of it as well as for pay. Common Labor Works Uncommonly Hard for Uncommonly Low Pay WASHINGTON, D. C.—The highest point in the wages of common labor was reached in 1920 when the average hourly rate was 48 cents. As a result of the depression the average fell to 32 cents in 1922. In 1924 it was only 39 cents. So says the report of the depart- ment of agriculture, based largely on road construction. MRS. SNOW DEN, ANTI-SOVIETIST, LIKE ABRAMOVITCH IN THE U. S. A.; HAS VERY BAD LUCK IN CANADA By SYONEY WARREN (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) VANCOUVER, Canada, Jan. 29.--Mrs. Phillip Snowden, wife of the ex chancellor of the exchequer in the MacDonald labor government, is meeting with a very coo! reception among Canadian workers of all shades of opinion, because of her fanatic hostility towards the Russian Soviet government. Her public appearances thruout the dominion have been almost exclusive- ly before organizations hostile towards labor’s aim and Mr@ Snowden has taken every opportunity to knock tha Russian workers’ republic. |The New York press and cap- i 5 7 NEW YORK CITY, Jan. . italist pre are fF 1 busy fois’ don the peop the idea that Cc t con- te 2 The doomed to failure and o example the loss to th roads — retype. are. considered agement during the war, as re-] confidence in the government. ported by James C. Davis in 8 followed by a second of the socialists. At this meeting they voted 50 against 15 in favor of the placarding. EAT GAMBLERS. after statement has been made. They Hang Onto a Straw, | The report of Davis is harped on as industriously as Helingfors harps upon the daily downfall of the Bolshevik government and with as much basis in fact. Claiming that private ownership is the only method of securing efficient operation the propagandists are tak ing the reported loss to the govern ment of about $1,674,500,000, as con- clusivs evidence that any economic scheme that has the least In common with Communism must result in loss to the people. The Communists have been active pointing out that managers of public utilities who hate Communism ane who are staunch defenders of private ownership heart and soul are able to make any public utility run by the capitalist government a complete failure. And not only that: these managers are given much eupport by the big interests, if not actually bribed, to so mismanage that it wil appear that public ownership cannot succeed. Russia Communist Example. As an example to the contrary the Communists point to Russia, where all the large public utilities are in the hands of the workers’ government and where all who have anything to do with the management of industry are in accord with the principles of Com- munism, resulting in a constant im. provement and development such as | pric fcannot be found in capitalist coun- tries. When the defenders of private ownership bob up among the workers the Communists are cuick to give them facts that show how foolish it would be for a capitalist government that is owned and controlled by pri vate interets to make government op- eration a success and thus under- mine the very system that fatten these private interests and their gov- ernment. This expose of the hypocrisy of the capitalists is making inroads among the workers, who have been used to take all reports as bona fide expres sions of unprejudiced declarations of facts, leaving the henchmen of big capita] weak and despised as a result of attempted attacks on the workers ANY BIG DEALS „ Public Is Expected to Get “Stung” May wheat sold at a new high mark of 2.05% a bushel yesterday, reaching the higest price on record for peace times. Reasons given for the jump in the wheat price were the world short- age of the crop of bread grains, which includes rye as well as wheat, and ru- mors of a corner in wheat. Speculation in wheat is being car- ried on mainly by the public now. The big wheat gamblers, including Arthur Cutten and James A. Patten, have withdrawn from the speculative mar- ket and are confining their activities of cash grain. The professional gamb- lers are withdrawing from the wheat futures buying. Russia Buys Flour. The wheat crop has now been sold over six times, showing the extent of the speculation in wheat. It is now learned that the Argentine wheat crot much larger than was expected, ane yg ‘will eventually lower the The big wheat gam) having withdrawn from the mar ket with their millions in profits, will lose nothing, and the public which Is dealing in wheat will get “stung.” Russia, usually a wheat exporting country, is importing some wheat this year, altho not heavily. It was re ported that Russia bought 15,000 bar rels of flour in Minneapolis. Mrs. Scott Durand, of the Lake Shore Drive hotel, is said to have made $1,500,000 speculating in wheat. Famine in Ireland. Buropean experts in wheat declare that the price of wheat will continue potato crop of West Ireland has fan- ed, causing a famine which has cre ated a demand for wheat in Ireland. Makes No Difference, ’ Herriot to resign |} WITHDRAW FROM principally to marketing a heavy line} to rise until Russia stops buying. The The price of flour in London has Jumped 24 cents a sack in 24 hours. of ten million workers may get by the merest chance a few dollars after a * 4 . 4 . * * K 13 0 1 — o% 2 0 D * 4 Ps * 3 2 N ro ae A R ar . ; ’ i eae / 4 j 2 5 8 * * ¥ To be sure, there is unemployment ar trades workers today. But the number of is greater than ever. The masses more and more, in backs under capitalism, and grows steadily. Profit rule In the printing indt to one Se oak It 2 re can. struggle, however, between workers has resulted in the building of in this industry, and the fight goes on. The workers in and around theaters, whether actors or stage employes, make their first mistake by building an alliance with their employers, They must that their interests are entirely separate from and opposed to those of their bosses. Dollars are not Invested | ness out of pure philanthrophy. more dollars. If the radio ness, or machines, or some other enterprise, profitable, then these dollars can readily be shifted where by their owners. | This situation ray revealed itself when most of the big theatrical managers in New York City failed to attend the anti-radio meeting called by the Actors’ Equity Asso- ciation, the actor’s organization, as close an approach to a union as these workers have. The actors in this co have a difficult time = over the idea that they o to be the petted dar 0 the rich; which accounts for their present attempt to lean on the managers, whom they will again be called on to fight in the future. ae i 5 jobs than printers, The will grow and e as ‘this medium of : capitalism. | 9 8 75 Only recently | was in the big steel town of Lackawanna, in New York. Here is an in center of tens of thousands of workers. It is one the most — 1 have ever seen. The main street boasted only lest and cheapest “movies.” Everything just hovered in the shadow of the steel mills. The only reason for the existence of Lackawanna is that the workers may make profits for “Charley” Schwab and his millionaire friends of the Bethle- hem Steel company. Lackawanna is typical of the nation. It shows how the theater has not yet been made available for the tens of millions. The desire of the great masses for the theater has not yet even been tap It is a great demand that needs only to be touched with life. “This will only be 4 achieved under Com- mynism; just as Communism is the only real fee of illiteracy that is even fostered under +. d their interests. The price of bread has All workers must fight for jobs under the present profit 2 — 5 so system, the theatrical employes along with the rest. But gu Te ait ates fy . Por Stn, We Stelen, nd that io thru tho Duliding of clase 2c , & ae For System When One Saver Der po ren rs. ey to . new scientific Servant Gets $50,000 2 is fighting windmills, “Pittsburgh Plus RB .. — anaes Ses tad in their struggle, the actors, in common with other workers, will finally discover that their only real salvation lies in the complete abolition of capitalism. Thus the radio like all other inventions, helps turn even these workers 1 = : ＋ grow and develop as. . Ae r wits 7 5 1 * 4 rs N 8 7 4 0 e yn of the departm of justice by a senate commit tee, was r from. tellin; some truths in the federal cour here, 1 ate He said “It is time to tell the trut) about some things that ought to b. told” but Judge Lindley refused to le him, declaring his testimony extran prising the most conservative ele ments in the Vancouver labor move- ment, voiced its disapproval of Mrs. Snowden’s attacks on Russia thru the party’s weekly organ, the B. C. Fed- erationist, as follows: “Apparently Mrs. Snowden, like a few others from across the waters, seem to think they can worship at the would advise her to adhere a little closer to the principles of labor. We do not care for individuals who choose compromise, whether they be at home or abroad. Her statement of the at- titude of British labor towards Rus- sla and towards the crown are, in our judgment, simply her own opinions. Since she is under the wing of the national institute for education, we would advise her to leave iabor mat- ters alone.” Memoria! Meeting, “I VERYBODY Feit That His Heart Was Agiow with a Transcendent Love for Each Workin Man.”—Lenin arden, New York, Sun- . | “This is the best evidence and the | host convincing argument as to what proprietors and their representatives in charge think of Pittsburgh as a1 permanent manufacturing point.” Says Judge I E. H. Gary -|iiteume of faithful service is made the ‘Basis of featured news thruout al! toward the struggle for Communism. America and used to fool the workers | wherever the capitalist press is spill. B tchers’ Union ing its propaganda to blind the people, Bu — — item runs: “Faithful serv- Celebrated Its ces have won $50,000 for Elmer 8. 1 ersary Geesey. The will of Joseph H. Stiles, 25th Anni n @ tobacco dealer, which was probated today, provides ‘that $50,000 is to go to Mr. Geesey for faithful services given as manager’ of his tobacco bus. ness. “The rest of the estate is given in trust to Mr. Stiles’ widow.” Silent as the Sphinx the same press Says not a word about the millions of faithful workers who after having given their entire life to the boss are turned out to starve when their serv- ices no longer suit the master. NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—The Butch- ers’ Union No. 174 celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary with an ex- cellent entertainment at the Labor Temple which was well attended by all members and friends. These workers are a class conscious bunch who from the very built their union on an industria) bas- is. They have for twenty-five years conducted a vigilant fight for betier conditions in their trade with the re- sult that from the abominable low wages of $12 a week for 10 hours a day including Sunday work, they now receive the minimum wage of $41 for a 48-hour week with no Sunday work. They have also established a free school and have aided substantially in the foundation of a workers’ press. Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! Elevated Traffic Held Up. Elevated traffic on the Northwestern HE Blevated railroad was delayed about fifteen minutes yesterday, when a draw bar on a south-bound Milwaukee North Shore train broke, The train LP? thousand dollars wanted by Come durin come at night. Bring ot Labor Defense Counoll, 0 Room 307. —— — — . 5 — aan 2 * Minor is going to trial! Thirty more trials ahead. Ten Volunteers wanted to help mail out tens of thousands of letters for the Michigan defense. the 7 phone State 5959 if you will — had just pulled into the Wilson avenue termina! at 9:29 when the bar snapped. February 15. 5 Theunis Determined to Retire, BRUSSELS, Belgium, Jan. 29. — Premier Theunis reiterated to the press today that he was determined to retire denitely after the next elections. Parliament, he said, was likely to be dissolved in March. 166 West Washington Street, — — — — — 22 — — Wrangel’s fascist! gunmen are active participants in the white terror of Horthy’s Hungarian government, which keeps a Hungarian workers’ being formed by ently taken part in this imperialistic reign of terror. They made an alliance with Horthy, and sent Abramovich to America, . Czarists and Socialists, The fascisti, the French and British socialists, csarists, including Wrangel, and the Russian royal family are making com- mon cause in an attack on the Balkan and Russian Communists. Baroness Wrangel, Abramovich, and other emissaries of Buropean imperialism are endeavoring to finance their on- slaught against Russia with American gold. “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” is the thought. Leavenworth and had turned again: Soviet Russia. The wish is father t HE piffle monger whose writing in theWeekly People during the w: was one sickening apology would lik to see Haywood back in Leavenwort! Her weekly typographical monstrosit plays the role of felon setter in cal ing the attention of the government ! la. the “illegal” concept of revolutionar activity. entertained by the Worker Party. When the Michigan supren court recently confirmed Comrac tionists too seriously. the editor - Ruthenberg’s conviction by a Berrie county jury, this volunteer govern ment agent humorously twitted tb capitalist court for taking the revol) * is very little difference b tween the Abramoviches wh openly come out and attack Sovi« Russia and type represented b Weekly People, e cept that Abramovich has more cou coming te Ashiand Auditorium Feb. 5. I. W. W. age. The S. L. P. editor and the u know secretary of the same organiz: tion have not the moral courage do what Abramovich is doing. But b tween them there is a strong bond, their mutual hate of the Russian Bc sheviki who insited in making a su cessful revolution and holding the power despite the predictions of tl fake Marxists of the S. P.; S. L. P., P. and the anarcho-syndicalists of t! 128 Cou the Collective Will, the Energy, Love and of the Working Class.“ Lenin Memorial my M n Square Garden, New York, Sunday After- neon, February 1. * —
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ed i . rat 4 UTCHESON GREASES TOBOGGAN FOR EXPULSION OF BURGESS, BROWN’S CAMPAIGN MANAGER By ONE NOT YET EXPELLED. “Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad,” is one of three proverbs that headed the leaflet issued by F. W. Burgess, member of the Carpenters’ Union of Philadelphia and campaign manager for Willis K. Brown of Peoria, candidate for General President of the U. B. of C. & J. of A. This proverb was directed against Wm. L Hutcheson and was followed by the “aii FF „ ö 0 „ ‘ ; 8 a 1 in * a E 5 i 17 . : 15 rt 112 7 15 5 “ 8 And Thursday the words amount- statement, “These three proverbs can be aptly applied to General President, Bro. William L. Hutcheson, from the erty, both U. S. attorney generals,, who, to cover their own corruption in office, threw the dust of ‘Communism’ and ‘Reds’ in the face of the public. “The spirit of men whose consciences cluding himself his wife and four small children, was wiped out today by illuminating gas that flooded their home after a pipe had been broken by eine cave-in, it Is be- The mock trial held last winter in the Soviet School where Prostitution 1 : the ere recent | was the defendant aroused much talk (Special ee 9 as ye soe 9 mlm te MINE CAVES IN AND and interest in the Russtan colony. HERRIN, 10 | tration in “He started with a tirade against} | GAS BLAST WIPES DUT | | 2% e interesting and useful die rror of th Russ ion. At nt the society for terror of ussia Communists and the necessity of kick- | cussion. prese ers still hu over of the syndicate in J ing them out of the U. B.” “There were FAMILY AT SCRANTON | |recnnicat aia to Soviet Russia is ar- The ing amounted to 210.5 per cent only three Communists at the conven- ranging another such trial on the more hog hy ES 8 —— man, an and June to “It reminds us of the tactics of A. on will be pu man, and „ Mitchell Palmer and Harry M. Deugh.| r fan Of Loule Desino, im | viet School, 1902 W. Division St, 1 — “rie Sunday, Feb. 8, at 5:30 p. m. There will be ten defendants representing many phases and parties of the counter-revolution. There will be many witnesses for the defense atid ig Sue exceed the supply, ed to almost a book! lieved. Another entire family was ithe prosecution. Many documents win the truth: te! Ora hole output of . cotton From Fort Bragg, Cal, came a (or trat rine in resentment ageinet un | overcame, but police arrived in time be read. The prosecutor will be the omas by the klansmen. therefore guaranteed. letter from “Mother” Ella Reeve fair sounds 2’ all persons and more] e de Save them. actor — N - ooh os Elias a, 6 ary of the Herrin] Home Grown Increases, | Bloor in which she told heer the e agate uatairaces on. the — — represented y tt actor — Miners’ * how Glenr The Soviet for| Finnish branch there ad just part of those who have executive au- made in writing, specifying the of- and an pe care Young, had entered the cigar store this year’s production a total of seven] bought $50.00 worth of policies, be- th ” tense and the section of the consti- Ito reveal his name at present. where he | and fand à half poods of cotton, of} sides having remitted $30.00 previ- 8 F tution so violated, and that they shall] The Russian workers of Chicago pushed a Green| which 8,200,000 poods were home ‘ Burgess in Line for Expulsion. | he read at one meeting of the local un- are aroused and it is expected that the told how Young him and grown, and about four and a half mi-“ ‘“Altho the only nationality here, For these and other statements sup-|ion and laid over till the next meet- hall will be packed. threatened Green had/lion poods were bought abroad. Next] the Finnish branch Is devoted to posed to have been made by Burgess. ing. The constitution also states that shown activi }year this industry will need about | our cause,” writes “Mother” Bloor. he now finds himself on the eve ot the defendant shall be notified of the Says He is Not Guilty. ties, and cursing him when | 9,600,000 poods of cotton, but in vir-| They are doing fine work, despite being kicked out of the organization] charges; that 11 members shall be} TOPEKA, Kans., Jan. 29.— Carl J. Thomas the store. Toung tue of the rapid of cul.| their isolation.” along with the Communists, adher- nominated by the local, the names Peterson, state banking commisisoner, was the declared. ture in Turkestan a considerable From right at home came another ents of the T. U. E. L. and other pro- placed in a ballot box and the first under former governor, Jonathan M. Be “Constabulary.” amount of the raw fifty dollars, brought by the local gressive carpenters. five drawn shall constitute the com- Davis, was arraigned today in charges e r into. Herrin WII be | | Finnish branch. So far Willis K. Brown, the silent] mittee to investigate the charges. Th« |of conspiracy and soliciting a bribe fron oven attend The figures given below show And from the other side of the candidate for general president, has] defendant, accuser, and witnesses in connection with pardon cases. the pe 47 * cotton growing has continent, Buffalo, N. V., came a remained silent on the erxpulsion shall be notified of the trial. The ac call for none less than five books of policies for the Finnish branch. This branch has pledged $300.00 and in raising it, have run out of policies. Needless to say, they are doing thelr part to help district 4 fill its quota. — with the demand, and the output is continually increasing as shown in the following table: Output of the Cotton Factories of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: save all he can and so, in | tax is too big for him to pay. His condition under the capi- talist system is such that he must er to escape paying taxes, he refuses to in- sure his crop. This means that he is without hail insurance protection and when hail strikes down his crop h. sustains a total loss. ; A tax levied upon every acre of till. able land in the state will mean a low cases. He was silent in the conven- tion. He said nothing during his cam- paign. He has said nothing since. However, there is still time for action. and we call upon Willis K. Brown to definitely state his position on the ex- pulsion policy of Hutcheson, on the signing of “open shop” agreements without the consent of the member ship, such as the Chicago agreement. What is his position on the corrup tion of the Hutcheson machine as cused and the accuser shall have the right to state their case to the local. The fact is, Hutcheson is afraid of an honest investigation. injunction Used to Frame Up Rey- nolds. This constitutional guarantee against frameups has been completely ignored by Hutcheson in all of the expulsion cases. Burgess is not alone. The entire 17 are in the same boat Peterson pleaded not guilty and was held in $1,000 bond. His preliminary hearing was set for Feb. 6. He pre vided bond. Seek War Vet Bonus. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 29.—A bill te provide a state bonus for Indiana world war veterans Will be ‘introduce- ed in the house this afternoon accord- ing to Representative George W. Free man, republican of Kokomo, author Take the case of. Wm. Reyonlds of : of the measure. Unbleached | ‘| pointed out in the document, of which Yarn In fabricin rage of 10 cents per acre for $7 per he is supposed to have a copy, issued: thousand thousand | ade ate é n a ones by Burgess, according to Hutcheson. “HE Was Like a Sponge That Could Absorb All That Was . and f hi Month poods f or which Burgess will undoubted Healthy and Genuine in the Life of the Working May 518 76,918 |p | ly be expelled without a trial? To re Class.“ Lenin Memorial Meeting, Madison Square Garden, June 517 76.731 — 1 0 * are sett neue maln silent means to endorse the pres || New York Sunday Afternoon, February 1. July 364 52,267 2 but — . . J oak i ot ent policy of the Hutcheson adminis. g , trati | f August 633 dn? fand even more as asked by private br Detroit. He did not even know that —— — * companies Hutcheson has a long list of names he was being investigated until a let October 803 118,467 According to the department ot ag 6 ‘ene * By! since ter was read to the district council of 7 3 oul ose sla or ex- i i- Aver. Monthly state of — — is — pulsion, with or without trial, depend . * — 1 8 HELD 10 HEAR 9 1923 4,471 65,825 : * nis entirely upon his control of the tibl | ed Shae ee . acres; improved land is; 24,863,17? e. n to 1 pelled. Now Hutcheson’s contemptible * 7 . J ’ 1 . ' „ i t JJ ͤ seen fora ase ean wat ra |e, ee STONE EXPLAIN | amounted to 76 million metres a 36,214,751 acres, and a1 tel) in flagrant violation of Section 55 of an injunction to keep Reynolds from * : month and exceeded the estimated this number at tees in the stat: the general constitution, and many attending his local union meetings. * | | | acne monthly output of 1923-24 by 17 per would be available for taxable pur mers are Slated to go. Of course, the left wing does not go Senate Then Holds Open HARVARD GLORIES IN “AD” BUNK , sumom motiaays. Ie October er. The 11 members in Los Angeles, all into capitalist courts, nor do they re! One to Kid Public to the sumem ge yon 3 This compulsory state hall insur Ot them members of the brotherhood | cognize injunctions issued against la- * the production unbleac goods ARVARD University, the supreme snob educational Institution of America, is pushing bourgeols ethics and business and has just given $10,500 in prizes to this end for advertising matter. It is significant that the awards are made thru Edward W. Bok, the Philadelphia dean of bour- was to amount to 113 millions metres —70 per cent more than the estimates 108 million metres, or 60 per cent above the estimates. and that of white bleached goods to ance system will immediately simplif: the operation of the state hail insur ance department because all croppe¢ land is automatically insured and there will be no withdrawals. for from five to 30 years, were the first to be expelled. This was done prior to the convention, to stop a progres- sive group of delegates from coming to the convention. bor. They are always ready to lay their case before the membership. This is a thing that labor fakers like Hutcheson are always afraid to do. They will use all of the dirty, un- (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Attorney- general Harlan F. Stone, named to the supreme court by President Cool- idge, took the witness stand in his Investment panies, real estate Five members have been expelled ir derhanded, unscrupulous, and dishon- 7 tod fore th eee ute denn Sand: e Conetee. Altogether the output of the cotton men, bankers aid speculators will, of Ohleago because they opposed the Jest means at hand to enforce their n defend his About 5,000 advertisements were submitted by 175 agencies anxious industry has grown during the last course, object ? uously against signing of the Chicago “open shop’ | will, and if this is not enough they to show Harvard students and Americans how best to make money by gulling the public with dope phraseology. Just what kind of ade they wrote the capitalist papers do not state. Perhaps it was something of the nature of a New York college staff member who wrote of advertising sorre time ago, recommending for South American countries ads of § pudes. The prizes by Harvard and Bok were mostly of $1,500 each. few years very rapidly. In 1922-23, the production of cotton goods amount- ed to 40 million metres monthly, i. e., not more than 24 per cent of the entire manufacturing capacity of the mills, but by October the output will have risen to 113 million metres, near- such a law, but Communists are main ly concerned with the farmer whc does the important work of raising th: crops. If it were not for the working farmers the land of the bankers and speculators would not have any valuc a! a : agreement. One member in Detroit is expelled because he was active ir the election campaign in support of Morris Rosen, the left wing candidate for general president, which resulted in Detroit casting a majority vote for Rosen. —— will then step further into the muck and appeal to the capitalist courts to support them. Reynolds, the militant, will fight the injunction but never will he bring the case before a cap- italist court of his own volition. professional record against senatortal criticism. Stone appeared first at a secret ser sion to explain his former legal activi- ties for J. Pierpont Morgan and his reported intention as attorney-gen- eral to re-indict Senator Burton K. A whatever. i Every carpenter, be he a Commun- Wheel e Ment | bs per cent of the manufacturing] The working farmers create the Now F. W. Burgess is slated to go ist, an adherent of the T. U. E. L., a Seer Gf Montana. i IT | capacity. land values and make it possible fo; His “crime” is being too active in progressive, yes, every member of the Opposition to these two phases of * | > THIS IS LENIN WEEK : Interests British Market. the speculators and absentee land the Labor Defense Council prior to rank and file must rally to the sup-|Stone’s legal record has blocked con- TY. | > >| This continuous growth of the So owners to sell their land at a profit. the Convention, and since then he has port of the ‘expelled” members. They |{rmation of his appointment to the | ‘ et cotton industry is of particular For this reason, those who are not en- been guilty of the unforgivable} must force Hutcheson to give an ac- supreme court. > Le ae W ks! d interest to the British market. gaged in the work of producing crops crime” of digging too deeply into the | count of his stewardship. Stone revealed that the indictment ah Read Lenin's Wor | Britain has always been a big, it but living off the labor of the farmers r Remini TA Pew uediions fer Hetchesen. ee ee nea ee 5 0 8 8 pa g n. eeler involved a “conspiracy to de- y living 1 Join Lenin’s Party—the Workers mot the only, supplier ot spindles, caving part of the hall tax. | His support of Willis K. Brown|mo's fair trial? Why connot ne |faud the United States of its of * Mer s 2 | sprinklers, and various technical and This hail insurance arrengemiént|Y°Wd have been forgiven, only he explain the signing of. the Chicago! lands.“ He said that it was 4 new kly Peopl : ( Communist) Party! e. 3 nich are necessary for will not, ot course, solve any of the Was not as silent as Brown. He went agreement if it is not a scab agree °"*° and not a repetition of the Mon hed in tb } n underlying problems of the er far beyond the candidate he was sup | ment? Why does he send in a com- tana indictment against Wheeler. ywood we . : Go to the ‘ Most British firms formerly had | er, serving merely to give the eapitat porting. He laid his finger on too mittee to Philadelphia to railroad — a —＋ * 1 |their branches and agents in the prin- ists a little jolt. Ultimately the prin mans gore spots, such as the falsiflea- Burgess out of the Brotherhood, if s and 10% Jumps 0. 18 ‘ „ a * >| cipal centers of Russian cotton indus- ciple, that the land belongs to those — of - ballots cast for the old-age | what he says Burgess said is not true? NEW YORK, Jan. 29—The common g try, and this year’s notable growth who tail upon it, must be establishea, n pointed out that the general] The constitution protects Hutche stock of S. S. Kresge jumped 50 points se writing 7 yj in the activity of the Russian cotton and both the national and state gov- — me ee expelled 68 local unlons son just as it is supposed to protect to 510 in the New York stock market ring the we ‘ — | mits means, providing the necessary ernments, as well as all the industries 13 ey refused to accept a cut al members, and would protect them today following announcement that would lik > * capital is forthcoming, a continuou: of the country must be in direct pos- a ap mor that Brotherhood men it it were lived up to. If Hutcheson the directors had declared a stock div. — > On sland steady growth of the demand fo: session of the farmers and workers e rear t in from all over the is the honest man he says he is, wh jidend of 50 per cent. They also de- . all kinds of machinery, looms, imple-| before they can free themselves com- weit 1 act as strikebreakers. has he annulled Section 55 of the gen clared a cash dividend of $2 a share ter in cal ‘ d F 5 1 >| ments, technical materials, etc., neces | Dletely from capitalist exploitation. 8 ya many other things, Bur- eral constitution? on the common stock and $1.75 on the rernment | un ay * e r uary ö eary for the successful development Farmers should join the only party 5 ms — — accused of saying, di These are some of the questionr|preferred, both payable April 1 te rer ‘ | ot this branch of industry. that stands for the abolition of all). — “ + eson, who has sent in 2/the membership must ask from the|stockholders of record March 19. e Worker > 2:00 P. M. ‘ robbery by private interests, namely, | Pee — sub-committee of the genera ear. But, do not stop at asking ques an supren ‘ a See “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” the Workers (Communist) Party of ses ve board to Philadelphia, com tions, demand the immediate re-in- 3 . a Comrac ‘ At at Ashland Auditorium Feb. 5. America. = ty Vice-President Cosgrove | statement of those declared expelled ( ‘ uw Pf Ra 7 — ‘ = ‘BR : ne ecretary Duffy, General the abolition of the expulsion policy ser gover ‘ ee ee ap awe al the right of free speech. Take this . ‘ ; specia’ 2 pags — > a Son quare al en ' | SUP P ORT OUR RUSSIAN DAILY! Stenographer. They have documents ra leg goed roa yeaa needles: — 4 * 1 4 1 ri | | | which they say Burgess was respon * s SPEAKERS: 4 Russian Communist daily, magazine under the same name, being sible — 3 * 2 2 — WWP fference b > . Novy Mir has a new editorial the official organ of the Communist Corruption o © Hutcheson admin: |} N ö h b ‘ M Z. FOSTER C. E. RUTHENBERG Party in the Russian language. Later istration. N . a“ r. F WILLIAM Z, ©. E. RUTHENBED board and new management, appoint-| Sty in the Russlan language, Lates| tition. erased to es A Brilliant Book by Leon Trotsky : resented b ‘ ak ed by the central executive committee) name Iskra but was forced to suspend ize the authority of this committee {J 10 7 People, e J Russian and Oriental Spe ers of the Workers Party after the old mostly on account of the internal and is demanding a trial according tc | ¥ DICTATORSHIP . more cou BEN GITLOW, Chairman. management announced that it was|struggles in the federation. After|the rights which are supposed to be g v 8. 5 and the u. ‘ ready to give up the fight and turn unity was achieved the paper again] Suaranteed him by the constitution. * . ne organiz s FREIHETT SINGING * e 12 oe, the daily into a weekly. Comrade 222 resumed under the old name, N 2 „ 2 . DEMOCRACY 0 courage FULL SYMPH HESTRA 7 5 ng. But b a NINA GUSSIBVA, Dramatic Suprano spare tatty verte: ee 5 At present the Novy Mir has the] tion, but not a cent to bring new mem In which Trotsky explodes the sham pretenses of so-called bourgeois : ong bond, ; * >| Burgin on the editorial board. best editorial staff since the time] bers in. Philadelphia is a good ex- é democracy and explains the character of the dictatorship of he Russian Bc ‘ ADMISSION FIFTY CENTS Tue paper has been invigorated witb | When Trotsky and Bucharin were ample of how the money of the Broth H Wer king class. . ¢ aking a gu > ; the best journalists that the party has on the editorial staff. The paper is erhood is being wasted. Five high sal : Kautsky and the later social-democratic school come in for warm olding the ‘ TICKETS ON SALE AT—Workers Party Office, 208 E. 12th St.; im the Russian language. receiving congratulations from indi-jaried officials and a special stenog . criticism at the 7 — of this most brilliant writer in the inter- . tions of t. q| | Fretheit, 153 E. Broadway; J 2 Book Shop, 127 Universi- ne Novy Mir is one ot the oldest vidual comrades and from branches |rapher spending thousands of dolar: : national working class movement. ; 8. L. P., ty Place; Novy Mir, 231 E. 1. th St.; N * Store (formerly Communist newspapers in the coun- It is believed that the paper will soon] making an investigation that could Paper, 50 Cents Cloth, $1.00 ¢ alists of t) | ne nd * bey pred i 8 St.; Stern Aye peed * >itry. It was established about 12 years be out of its present financial difficul- — been done by mail from Indian Order from ; ‘ —— 2 Book lago by the Russian federation of the/ties and will become one of the strong: | @polis, that is, if there was any sin- 0 f — eee 3 Hall, 764 40th F — lait t f old socialist party. With the party est weapons of our party. cerity in the investigation. ; THE DAILY WORKER . ove and Mermaid Ave. and 33rd St., Coney >} split the paper went Lo Ngan eo 24 — * — 5 8 = if pigment > Ne N. ¢ Literature Department ’ ‘ : | At the time of the r n of the Workers Party is ca where | afraid rip : ( lemorial Auspices, Workers Party of America, District No. 2. 3 ‘paper was forced under measures will be taken to insure the|@ess according to the constitution? | 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, linois § y After- ground and was turned into a monthly existence of the Novy Mir. which states that charges shall oe NM wwe vee ew ew ee ww ee wy eee ew ye yy! — — 1 . * * . nn 3
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economy has noth- Lee * e Chicago board of education. - * 5 2 r r t t last meeting it leaked out that r the use of schools for public meet- the business manager of the has ordered a charge for rent. ttee headed by A. B. Halet sanitation. for Chicago, came Detar ie the board of education meeting lain against a fee of $25 charg- ed by Manager Byrne of the school board for the use of the schools for meetings. The matter was referred grounds of which Trustee Fellows is chairman. The committee said it had arranged for a series of meetings in schools in every ward for next Monday night to explain the seriousness of the water drainage question to the people of Chicago. “This action by the board retards our work” said George Me- Gowan. ee WORKERS TOIN o PARTY AT OMAHA L (Special to The Daily Worker) OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 29.—Omaha held a rousing Lenin celebration afternoon, with a crowd which filled the Labor Lyceum to e The quality of the program, addresses and ‘singing, able comment Snyder Makes Strong Address. J. B. Snyder, national organizer for the Workers Party, cipal address of the day. He appealed to the workers NEWARK PAINTERS’. UNION REPUDIATES THE SPY ABRAMOVICH NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 29.—Paint- ers Local No. 777, of Newark repudi- ated Rapfael Abramovich, spy of world imperialism and the Second International, at ite last meeting here. N By a vote of 59 to 6 the paint- ers voted down the aecialist party’s © request that the Newark painters send delegates to welcome Abramo- vich when he speaks here. Several speakers exposed Abramoviche’ rec ord in the interests of the world capitalists. North Side English Notice. Comrade John W. Johnstone, who attended the Pan-American and A. F. of L. conventions, will have an interesting account to give us of this gathering at the next meeting of our branch on Monday, at 8 p. m., at the Imperial Hall, 2406 N. Halsted St. Comrades come early so that we can finish our business quickly and give the speaker plenty of time. L WHAT IS YOUR SHARE IN Ir? NEW YORK, Jan. 29.— According to census bureau estimate, the wealth of the United States in 1922 was $320,- 000,000,000, having increased ten times in fifty years. What is your share in these 320 billions? How Taxes Are Dodged Sixty-seven persons in 1922 paid in- come taxes amounting to $48,000,000. These individuals had an income of more than $1,000,000 a year. Their tax exceeded that of 5,000,000 tax- payers with incomes of less than $6,000. There is a reason—for the 5,000,000 have not enough to be taxed, while the wealthy with “tax-exempt” securities manage to escape taxation on a large part of their wealth and cap- ital. Thus John D. Rockefeller is rep- uted to be worth at least $1,400,000,- 000, but pays taxes on income from wealth estimated at $500,000,000 anu then he pretends that his income amounts to only 95,000,000. There were a number of other in- teresting items in the census bureau report. The following table reveals noteworthy increases in values: 1922 1912 Real property and improvements taxed..............$155,908,000,000 $96,923,000,000 Manufacturing machinery, tools and implements pip. Bea 6,091,000,000 Manufactured products 28,422,000,000 14,693,000,000 Livestock 5,807,000,000 6,238,000,000 Farm implements and machinery. . 2,604, 000,000 1.368.000, 000 Agricultural products 5, 465,000,000 5,240,000, 000 * A Lesson In Mathematics + ve wrker ghould n -| 3 the ‘dee — 8 * When 8 buy, get an “Ad” chinery and manufactured products. And then he should ask himself what share he has received. Every farmer should compare the decrease in the value of livestock, the small increase in the value of agricultural products and the somewhat larger one in farm implements, and then should ask how it happens that the capitalists in- crease their capital and wealth so much more rapidly. Plenty of wealth and capital—but what is your share in it? for the DAILY WORKER. Address—in Russian, “Lenin and Russia,” B. M. Mishkis: : Address—"Lenin, the Stratedtat,” David Coutts. Address—in Jewish, “Lenin and the Subject Peoples,” David Reznick. Workers Memorial Song—Red Quar- tet. Address— Liebknecht and Lenin ism,” Tom Matthews. Address A Leninist Party in Am erica,” J. E. Snyder. The meeting opened promptly at 3:00 and adjourned promptly at 5:00, with perfect organization thruout. Several young workers signed up expressing their desire to become a part of the Communist youth in Am- erica. A meeting to organize a Y. W. L. branch will be held shortly. | War of Words Halts While Coolidge Men Fix Up Committee i nak | (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—An armis- tice in the fake war of words was de- clared in the senate today in the fight against promotion of Attorney General Harlan F. Stone, to the United States supreme court. Altho democratic leaders declared the fight “not ended” administration spokesmen were confident of obtain- ing confirmation for Stone’s appoint- |. ment as soon as the judiciary commit- tee again submits his name to the full senate. The committee will meet next Monday for final action on the appoint- ment. Building Trades Workers, Attention! A very important meeting of all building trades workers will be held Sunday, February 1, at 10 a. m., at 722 Blue Island Ave. Many important issues aré coming up at this meeting, the carpenters’ expulsion, the building laborers’ scab agreement and their trouble in getting into the union. Also the question of our paper, The Progressive Building Trades Worker. its membership. PE YS SL AAA ee and importance. This monthly magazine, work of international leaders and of well-known writers on the history and theory of the world revolutionary Labor movement, appears. taneously in English, Russian, French an man and is issued at Smolny, Leningrad, Russia. 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Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. : 4 ' 3 fon I bundle of ä 6 + 4 r eh e months' subscription to tee COM: : 1 r ²˙ A i „ — Feen * ee ee ee ee , , te te ei i i i i i i i i i 22... ͤ ͤ K ̃——— . been killed in the steel Np Be 5 „ 25 n ae a a ‘ao 115 af i it ; 1332 1 75 1575 iii 80 Slavic choir Buduchnost“ also contributed two very fine numbers. Bedacht Spoke. The first speaker of the evening was Comrade Max Bedacht, who spoke in the German language and made a masterful speech. His speech on the achievement of Lenin and his life and Life Work of Lenin. Wm. F. Kruse was the principal speaker in the English language. He spoke on the work of Nicolai Lenin and his achievements. He stated that a y & work was well received by the au- 1917 in leading the armed of Russian workers was emphasized , by Comrade’ Kruse. He also pointed ‘out to the marvelous: strategy dis- played by Comrade Lenin in signing ‘the Brest-Litovsk treaty and the in- troduction of the new economic policy. Bulld the Party. Comrade Kruse concluded his speech by calling upon the audience to build up a real monument to Com- tade Lenin ‘by building up the party of Lenin in this country—the Work- ers (Communist) Party of America. Our Candidate in the 34th Ward. Brooker is a printer, working at the graphical Union, Local 16, Chicago. later he joined the social revolution- ary party. He remained active in the left wing of this party up to 1908, when he left Russia for the United States. During the period of his activity i Russia he was arrested ten times onee for working in an underground print shop, and in 1907 he was exiled to the province of Viatka. When he came to the United States, he made New York his home. There in the Communist movethent, having held various responsible party post- tions, including that of sub-district or- ganizer. the Typographical Union in 1912 and has always been an active and loyal union man. He assisted in establish- ing the six-hour day for Jewish print- ers in Chicago, was secretary of the United Hebrew Chapels, and shop chairman in the print shop of the Jewish Daily Courier in 1920. a tale of unswerving devotion and sacrifice to the working class move. ment—a tale of hard work, unflinch- ing bravery in the face of czarist op- pression, and patient striving to serve his fellow workers. His record is one that wins the respect and confi- dence of every working man and wom- an, one that assures them that he will faithfully fight for their interests ar all times and in all places. Build the DAILY WORKER! Prison Yawns Little y For Gary, Ind., Tools Of the Steel Trust HAMMOND, Ind., Jan. 29——Petitions for an appeal to the United States su- preme court were filed today by attor- neys of Hammond, representing May- or R. O. Johnson of Gary, and a num- ber of others of the fifty-five defend- ants sentenced to the federal peniten- tiary for conspiracy several months ago. They were found guilty of traf- ficing in illegal liquor and vice deals. The sentences were imposed by the federal court at Indianapolis, and the decision of that court was recently upheld by the United States circuit court of appeals, sitting in Chicago. Other defendants have filed motion for a new trial with the court of ap- peals. Johnson and the other Gary officials were elected to office with the backing at the U. S. Steel corporation, and have | always obeyed the orders of Elbert H. Gary. During @ recent aecident in | Gary Mayor Johnson refused to in- vestigate reports that 13 workers had mills. The deaths were suppressed, only one be- ins reported killed. Jobs Scarce in Cleveland. CLEVELAND.—Of the 115,000 non- union laborers who applied at the Am- .@rican Plan Association's Cleveland of- Aces last year for employment, but 00 were placed. The city-state of- ce placed 55,000 out of 200,000. us &. ay Meals fs JARRY BROOKER, candidate endorsed by the Workers : Party for alderman in the 34th ward, has a long history of service to the labor and revolutionary movements of Russia and America. .Comrade (Communist) trade, and a member of the Typo- Comrade Brooker is forty years old. He started to work for his living at the age of eighteen. ‘In 1903, he became a member of the social demo- cratic party of Russia and six months +— he r the 9 9 Circle, then ever since. He has been very active | He joined Local 83, New York, of 34th WARD CANDIDATE 7 ' HARRY BROOKER The life story of Harry Brooker is] Communist Candidate for Alderman. in the 34th Ward, 6. 0. b. OF HOUSE EXCOMMUNICATES LAFOLLETTE MEN WASHINGTON, Jan. Jan. 29.—LaFollette insurgents were officially read out of the republican party today. by leaders of the. house. Representative Will R. Wood, repub- lican of Indiana, chairman of the re publican congressional committee, notified all republicans of the confer ence to be held here on Feb.. 27 to choose a new speaker and floor leader but pointedly omitted the entire Wis- consin delegation. Keller of Minne- sota, Sinclair of North ota, and La Guardia of New York. This action by the house leaders, followed similar disciplinary method recently taken by senate leaders against LaFollette’s supporters in * senate. . Socialist in Chop Suey. Wisconsin has a delegation of eleven members in congress, all of whor are a part of the LaFollette organiza- tion. Ten of them, Representatives Cooper, Voigt, Nelson, Schafer, Lamp- ert, Beck, Broene, Schneider, Frear, and Peavy are republicans, and one, Berger, is listed as a socialist though indistinguishable from any other La Follette. supporter. All the congressmen thus droppe¢ from the republican party rolls sup- ported the LaFollette-Wheeler ticket in the recent campaign. Hold Committee Positions. Most of the Wisconsin delegation hold responsible positions in the pres- ent house. republican organization. John M. Nelson, who was LaFollette’s presidential campaign manager, ta chairman of an elections committee, and a member of the rules committee. How their exclusion from the repub- lican organization will affect their committee status in the next congress, could not be determined. . — | orth eta Whats gp R. E. o. 2 0 Bitar ou woh a DAILY V ve N ee Houston, Tex., Jewish:. Centerville, la., Englieh..... see Denver, Col., English Phoenix, Arizona, English... Richmond, Va., English... Diamondeville, Wyo., Finnish Hanna, Wyo., Finnish... te Leadville, Col., Finnish Rock Springs, Wyo., Finnish Denver, Col., Greek ; Kansas City, Kan., Russia Pocatello, Idaho, Scandinavian Kansas City, Kan., South Slavic Aan 8 8 pueblo, Colo,, South Slavic Mystic, la., South Siavi Canton, O., C. C. C Total 1 $461.00 These Haven’t Answered “Present!” CZECHO-SLOVAK BRANCH, Glen Allen, Va. ENGLISH BRANCHES, Birmingham, Ala.; El Paso, Texas Dening, N. M.] Roanoke, Va. GERMAN BRANCH, Denver, Colo. ee, . x HUNGARIAN BRANCH, Galloway, W. Va. JEWISH BRANCHES, Denver, Colo.; Norforlk, Va.; San Antonio, Texas; Chattanooga, Wee Atlanta, Ga.; Jacksonville, Fla. * (Special to 7 Dally Worker) ~ NEW YORK CITY, Jan 29.—With cries of “Viva Lenin," “Viva Soviet Russia” and “Viva the social revolution,” the Italian Commynists defied the iron dictatorship of Mussolini during thé Lenin Memorfal celebration thru- out Italy recently.. Dispatches received here speak of tremendous celebra- tions in Milan, Grecd-Milanese, Trieste, Messina and Rome. In Greco-Milanese, the Communists raised the red flag over the impor tant buildings of the city. The Communists were fiercely attacked by the police and a number of them were arrested. In Trieste the red flag was raised upon the telegraph poles of the city. Strenuous efforts were made by the fascisti to suppress any form of dem- onstration in honor of the first anni- versary of the death of Lenin. New York Will Be Heard Too. Just as the workers of New York are inspired by the brave example of their brothers and comrades in Italy, so too will the Italian workers take heart when they hear of the formia- able demonstration which the work- ers of New York will make next Sun- day, Feb. 1 at 2 p. m. at Madison Square Garden. To the workers o the world, the fact that the American workers show a real spirit of revolu- —— tionary enthusiasm, right at the heart of the dictatorship of Morgan, Gary. et al, this fact to them is of tremend- ous importance. While they feel the iron heel of this dictatorship in Italy under Mussolini, in Germany under the Dawes plan, they are reconciled by the fact that ardent and energetic workers are striving industriously to undermine and overthrow that dicta- torship, and that they liberation will come soon. Tickets for this tntetaational dem. onstration, are now on sale at 208 Bast 12th street and at all Workers Party newspapers and’ branch party offices. For further details see the columns of this paper. “SOCIALIST” JUDASES OF LABOR | R more than ten years the social democrats, the mensheviks, have been active as the rear guard of re- treating capitalism. Fighting desper- ately for the bankrupt cause of their capitalist masters these social demo crats have elevated treason to the working class to the fundamental prin- ciple of the Second International. At present Raphael Abramovich, a member of the executive committee member of the central committee of the Russian mensheviks is touring the United States as part of the revolutionary activities of the “socialists. The he Workers Party, the representative and leader of the revo- lutionary workers of America throws all the treacherous acts of the Second International into the face of its Am- erican representatives, the Abramo- viches, the Hillquits, the Bergers, the Cahans and Pankens, and calls upon all red blooded workers of this coun- try to show to this coterie of traitors their contempt. Comrade Max Bedacht has written a little pamphlet for the Workers Party about the “Social Judases of Labor.” The pamphlet is one great indictment of the role that interna- tional menshevism played in the con- tinuous struggles of the exploited for their emancipation. The pamphlet will be sold for 5 cents a copy in re tail. Hundreds of thousands of ies of this pamphlet ought to be cir- culated and sold by our party thruou ut of the Second International and a the country. The pamphlet supplies ammunition against the “socialisits” and can be used by our comrades in their activi- ties and propaganda among their fel- low workers. But the little booklet is also of great propaganda value in itself. Distributed among the work- ers in general, and especially among workers still influenced by the social traitors, the pamphlet can speak for the Communists and strengthen our ranks in the struggle against the shock troops of capitalist reaction: the “Socialist Judases of Labor.” Don’t Miss Y. W. L. Entertainment to Be Held in Springfield SPRINGFIELD, IIL III. Jan. 29—The Springfield branch of the Young Workers League will entertain at a “sociable evening“ given Feb. 15, at the White Dental Parlor, Hall, at 223 1-3, South Fifth Street, Springfield. Comrade Margaret , Sungail will appear in a selection entitled “Im- personations of a Busy Body” and the German Singing Society will render songs and recitals. The Young Work- ers League Orchestra, an organization that the Young Workers are justly proud of will be present and furnish select numbers of “jazz” music for the coy | “hop” that will take place immediately after the other entertainments are over. — — % „ ae a ee 1 —2 on of A Tes r. 1 * a 0 * . * 1715155 =o 8 * 1 T fire Mo ng sha car apc tod ]
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ve de > al as 8 8 ed | In 5 ile. rR . n, " ’ b 0 F U 1 3) 0 5 } 1 N * 5 1 I b I D a h * a 9. > Oe te | RE Di ELLE eee ee an viet the hru- bra- por the eart ary. end- k the m taly 2 der 1 ed „ to | cta- will em KA to help with the work. an Season Ticket Club The Amalgamated Trust and Sav- ings Bank of Chicago offers an oppor- the seat is located a season ticket for 12 performances can be secured on a club payment plan. Tickets reserved new are for November 4, 1925 when the 1925-6 season opens. The pay- ments are divided into nine monthly deposits. Deposits can be made at once at the Amalgamated Bank and not later than Feb. 28. Full informa- tion ean be secured from the Amalga mated Trust and Savings Bank, 871 W. Jackson Boulevard. Injured Fighting Fire firemen, Wilbur Brotherton and Frank Moelter, were painfully injured fight ing the fire whieh destroyed machine shops, store rooms and offices at the car barn of the Terre Haute, Indian-| ot the capitalist press. apolis and Eastern traction line here iy idee | Camera Tn ele Ind., Jan. 29— Two] Set, moluding the secret police funds, ei 3 8 * 9 7 7 *. 2 117 735 171111 a Paris, which was raided by the police of M. Herriot’s “liberal” government L'Humanite has been improved by the introduction of a section for | circulation over the total remains at about 200,000. Party Campaigns | union unity, against the iving, and against the . N i 4 2 transferred to the Pantheon. On this occasion 200,000 came on to the streets behind the banners of the committee of action; the capitalist press shrieked alarm for days and weeks afterwards. The party has intensified its cam- paign against the infamous French “socialist” leaders whose shameful he- trayal of every principle of socialism becomes every day more glaring, They have supported the Herriot govern- ment all the time, voting for the bud- sabotaging a complete amnesty for all political prisoners, always meanly at- tacking the Communist. and the Russian revolution—to the great joy Monatte-Rosmer “Right” But while our brother party has OUR DAILY PATTERNS ‘FROCK FOR THE LITTLE MISS j _ hig 4995. The eceipt of 130 in silver or stamps, When you buy, an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. “godet" a new strie Medium, and requires 1% yard of 36- A NEAT APRON FOR MANY OCCASIONS. 4479. Lawn, batiste, dotted Swiss or silk could be used for this style. It is also attractive for cretonne, or chintz. | The pattern is cut in one size: inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on | PITTSBURGH, PA. DENTIST CENTER AVE. Cor arthur Be workers | 2317 127 2757 BE ty ie a one or two others, formed a little dis- ities. It was absolutely clear that the mass of the proletarian membership was dead against them. An “Open Letter” : For a while they lay low. Then, quite. suddenly, in November, they drew up an open letter to the mem- contented “cave” within the party. In 7 n 1 „ -—en ; a ; “ts 4 5 85 > ee ebe. N 2 2 N - — bers of the party, which they had dis- tributed as far as possible through- ‘lout the party. The letter was signed Monatte, Rosmer, and Delagarde, an- other member of\ the party executive. | It contained violent personal attacks on the party leadership, notably on comrades Albert Treint and Suzannc Girault, who were declared to be au- tocrats” with whom any team work was impossible. The letter attacked the “barrack-room” j discipline of the party, and said that its “bureaucracy” resolutions be- ! 8 — that ot the of any Buropean country was desorib- French bourgeois state itself. In this strain the letter continued: it did not propose any alternative pol - icy for the party. © | As soon as the letter became known throughout the party peasants are subjects, against their will, to Lenin Conquered Enemies. THe skiliful manner with which the successful obliteration of all their enemies so that the Russians today enjoy the highest standard of living stances of his experiences with the na- tives of Russia as evidence of the great love which they held for their devoted and loyal leader. In reply to . e 7 7 N r 7 1 . ‘ 1 ~ : rey s is. TN ae SF cn, OM Kn. a Sa eae 4 un hien bie ete a 1. letter was greeted by the capitalist council was held on December 5 which voted unanimously (less two abstentions) for the expulsion of Monatte, Rosmer, and Souvarine from the party. This firmed by the forth-coming congress. We in England have had to deal with our right wing opportunists, such as Newbold and Ellen Wilkinson. Our sympathies must be with our French comrads in their fight to make their party solidly Bolshevik, which in- volves a remorseless struggle against the right deviations represented by Monatte and Rosmer. — The Beauty and the Bolshevik" is coming to Ashland Auditorium Feb. 5, rr Dr S. ZIMMERMAN DEwris’[ MY NEW LOCATION ecial X-Ray rices * to Gas Workers e Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination ts Free My Prices Are Reasonable ‘My Work le Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY those who believe that Communism is R. American conditions mentioned ‘the “remains to de con- ing no real working class conscious „ot the evening, and were deeply ap- ted audience may not be aware of the fact Lenin was one of the noblest of men. Collection For Defense. Comrade Carlson in speaking of Michigan persecution to which Com- munists have been subjected. The speaker appealed to the audience to assist us in raising funds with which to employ the best possible legal aid for our imprisoned comrades. The sum of $31.19 was collected. Musical Genius Plays. If Washington is unfortunate in hav- population it is at least fortunate in Her brother, Julius, the violin, in playing “The Interna- tional.” Other selections were played both at the opening and at the close Dally Worker Praised. + Comrade O’Hara McIntosh ided and spoke of the good work which is ‘being done by the DAILY WORKER in carrying Comrade Lenin’s message to the workers of America. He said part: ö “In the United States this evening Bcores of meetings similar to this gath ering are being held. The sentiment which is expressed by these meetings is the reply of the class conscious workers of America to the falsehoods} which are continually being published in the yellow press of the capitalist class. Perhaps some of those in the that the mental prostitutes who work under the aliases of ‘foreign corres- pondents’ have been excluded fron Russia be dishonest men are not wan country. Vultures of Capitalism. “Thes vultures of capitalism have gone across the border to the city of Riga where they have established an * 1 * 8 BUI ee eee — a — * — W * (Special to The Daily Worker) thruout the country are doing to build a au jons to spoemptien more ng~—and we will tell the Every day under this head you will tearn not only what BUILDERS 8 8 but also practical or OUR paper. el us what YOU are 22 — . r 5 NEW YORK, Jan. 29.— There are 25,000 workmen’s compensation cases pending in the state of New York and From the Senate of the State of Montana. N stationery of the state of Montana, Senator Charles E. Taylor, of Sheridan county, editor of the read what he writes; numbers, also and 1 do not care to have the the shop or the senate. it go to the shop. Be sure to take “Bulld the DAILY WORKER.” 8 0 A Strange Agent From Duluth. sends another subseription for himself on a blank from the Tool Box. It is very natural for a Communist, in the state senate, to carry a Tool Box even there. A Builder carries a Tool Box with him everywhere! ; * Comrades: Here | am in the senate of the state of Montana. I have been two weeks without a copy of the DAILY WORKER and | feel that | have been in the mountains for that length of times Go please put me on the list for the enclosed $1.00 and am getting the paper at Plentywood, Montana, but | want it here Best wishes to you pioneers of the better day, The Tool Box is a handy thing. Builders thruout the country are learn- ing the trick of having one in their pockets no matter where they go—to But we frankly admit, altho we are glad to see the Tool Box taken to a state senate, we are much more pleased to see theré is no appropriation to meet them. Last year’s legislature con- veniently forgot to make such an ap- propriation. Governor Smith has been forced to do something to make a little showing in view of his position as “labor’s friend” and he has started working. on a special message urging an emergency appropriation to cover the cases. These 25,000 appeals are new and the Whitley legislative committee has been sitting to find out why there has been so much delay in taking up these cases. The very lean and pretended excuse as testified to before the com- mittee is lack of hearing stenogra- phers and deputies in the attorney general's office. All this means is that the attorney general wants more jobs for his henchmen. James Donohue, director of the Workmen's Compensation Bureau in New York City declared before the committee that in 371,000 accidents last year 111,000 claims were made. Another witness said the state should spend at least $200,000 more each year to have the compensation law carried out. Producers’ News, of Pientywood, But send me three or four back paper changed for so short a time. CHARLES E. TAYLOR. yours there—it’s a great place to Comrade Lund, DAILY WORKE but one who appreciates the hard WORKER has. We are cutting his earnings in half, but we wish we could double them. their branch. He is arranging such well, That is sure to bring resulte in “building.” other locals, a little live wire in the local DAILY WORKER agent. letter to cut his earnings from the DAILY WORKER sub sales in half. He says he is also agent for the Finnish paper “Tyomles” and can man- age to “get by” with just half of what he gets. A strange agent indeed, 5 In addition to his plea he sends us the news that he has secured the support of two live wires, R. F. Rooney and Arnold Arnio of the English ’ branch, to devote two evenings a week to sub getting in order to build Besides these 25,000 new cases there were on January Ist, nearly a month ago, 2,048 cases on appeal. R agent for Duluth, asks us in his Steel Workers, Take Notice NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—German and Belgian prices on iron and steel in A. Argintina are 20 per cent lower than American prices. The American steel manufacturers declare that American production costs are too high and must be reduced. Twent per cent will soon come off the wages of the steel workers. Well, the steel workers can | stand it, they are in the millionaire task of existing that the DAILY support from the local Y. W. L. as Have you comrades in branches? Send him (or her) to the — — of defaming the Soviet government. From that factory are cabled flights of fancy to all of the so-called civilized nations of the world. The chief reci- pient of these canards in America is the Chicago Tribune. Chicago Tribune Lie Factory. “From Chicago the stories are te: legraphed to various cities and Wash- ington receives its share of them. You have all seen these stories and per- haps some ot you have seen the off- cial denials tucked away in some ob- eure corner a few weeks after the sublication of the original story. It may interest this audience to know that there is a daily paper published in this country which is devoted to the interests of che working class and in which these capitalist lies are ex- The Workers’ Daily. “This paper is the DAILY WORK- ER and is delivered in Washington the day following its publication. We urge upon all of you the necessity of reading this paper if you wish to be correctly informed concerning the struggle between capital and labor which is daily becoming more and more, acute in every capitalist country. “There are agents of the DAILY | WORKER in this building tonight 'who will be glad to take your sub- scription. The paper is on sale every Ada at the Gale Book store at 606 Sixth street, Northwest.” Repald by Russſa. Responding to urgent appeals made immediately after the war, English co-operators lent nearly a million pounds to co-operative societies in eastern Burope, and particularly Rus- sia. f has now practically wiped off phere of this debt, tho it would seem that the other countries in which loans were made have been by no means so prompt in payment. Thie shows the hollowness of the outcry which has been raised in some quar ters against the proposed guarantee ofa loan to Russia under the recent treaty. Where Russia recognizes a debt she has shown that she is quite willing to honor her obligations.—La. bor Press Service. Mississippi Wants Scandinavians, BILOXI, Miss.—Believing that Scan- dinavians will do more work for fess money, the Mississippi chamber of commerce and the development board has, through Oscar Hellstrom, combed Canada and the northern section of the United States to secure them to be employed on farms and canning factories in the southern part of the immense lie factory, for the purpose state. list. Arizona for Amendment. ‘OMAHA COMRADES SEND GREETINGS TO b. k. RUTHENBERG he City Central ‘Committee of the Omaha branch, Workers (Com- munist) Party of America, has sent the following letter to Comrade Ruthenberg, pledging support to the Labor Defense Council, and con- gratulating the Communist move- ment on the release of Comrade Ruthenberg: „. E. Ruthenberg, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. 5 Dear Comrade: “The City Central Committee, representing the Omaha branches of the Workers Party, congratu- lates you on your release from the 20 clutches of the capitalist jailers, 2 wish to 8 you Pog March 7 your service to the tollers of . this country, and we welcome your wen Nn. return to activity in the Communist | — favorable action in the house, the child labor amendment was unanimously ratified by the Arizona state senate today. Open Forum, Sunday Night, Ledge Room, Ashland Auditorium, | | Movies for Workers | “Beauty and the Bolshevik” and “Russia in Overalis” will be shown at the following places: Chicago, Ashland Auditorium, Feb. Pittsburgh, Pa, N. 8. Carnegie Music Hall, Feb. 7. South Bend, Ind.—White Eagle Theater, 1125 W. Division St., Feb. 11. St. Paul, Minn.—444 Rice St., Feb. Milwaukee, Wie Pabst Theater, movement in America. THE BEAUTY AND “Whom the capitalists cannot buy THE BOLSHEVIK they try to destroy or place behind iron bars. These exploiters know that you cannot be bought or flat- tered into betraying the cause of the oppressed, and so they try to remove you from the field of the class war by sentencing you to pri- son. Workers Support Communists. “Regardiess of what action the supreme court may take on your case, you will know that the mil- tant workers and farmers of the country are behind you to a man. “May life grant you long years In which to serve the movement of the real people, the workers. That movement is the Communiet Inter- national—your movement and ours the movement of all tne) oppress- ed everywhere. Fraternally yours, City Central Committee, Omaha, Nebr. Wm. Jonisch, chairfhan; J. K. Sny- der, organizer, Tom Matthews, secy.” Aue A ast; e A „HE Knew His Great Historical Mission, But at the Same Time He Was a Man of Great Humanity, Rare Sim- licity and Remarkable Warmth.”—Lenin Memorial Meet- ing, adison Square Garden, New York, Sunday Afternoon, February 1. , The A. B. C. of Communism and love do mix in Soviet Russia. An officer of the Red Army teaching his sweet- heart Communism. Come and see how it is done in “The Beauty and the Bolshevik,” to be shown at Ashland Auditorium next Thursday, Feb. 6, from 7 to 11 p. m. continuously. Get your tickets now! EEE UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN Wait a ; o xe minute! ~ 2 Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 29.— Following Risse
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ee K r ~ * 1 L 0 5 — 7 a 7 > \ Pez 4 4 „ ‘ * ie 70 1 * e . 2 $3.50....6 dy mali (in Ch per year 34.50. 6 mon all mall and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER . | Chicago, nete un w. Washington Bivd. ‘LOUIS ENGDAHL } 1 F. DUNNE{ PORES | MORITZ J. LOEB siness Manager as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- ee Office at Chicago, UI. under the act of March 8, 1879. oe ation of Labor. Advertising rates on applications Back to Form 8 1 —— rubbed their eyes in wonder to see the Chicago Tribune stand for a proposed law that would if acted, and honestly enforced, throw some protec- tion around the youth of this country who are ex- ploited in the slave pens of the nation before they have grown to manhood and womanhood. Not that the law was adequate or anything like it. Not that we expect a capitalist government! to enforce a law that would injure the system of which it is the executive committee. But the vigor- ous and united opposition that the capitalists or- ganized against it showed very clearly that they recognized its implications and its damaging effect | on their profit making industrial machine. The Chicago Tribune was one of the very few capitalist papers to support the proposed amend- ment. But on January 28; the Tribune changed its position and attacked the amendment, tho de- claring that the principle: back of it was right. “There has been vacillation and uncertainty in this office,” declared the editorial. What actually hap- pened in the Tribune office, we do not know, but it is quite likely that the chief editorial writer got away with his own ideas on the question until the organized opposition to the amendment brought the necessary pressure to bear on the owner, who may be enjoying himself in Florida, in Paris or at the gambling tables of Monte Carlo with the result that the editorial-writer-in- chief was instrueted to switch his lights. The Tribune now howls with the pack.. This is as it should be. Those who talk about a free press under class rule are talking thru their hats. The DAILY WORKER does not wave the white ban- ner of impartiality as does the hypocritical capi- talist press. We are partial towards the working- We admit that our paper is concerned only |, \ Wit the welfare. of the workers. and. with: the interests of the workers’ revolution. We support the child labor amendment or any other proposi- tion that we believe will aid the workers. We avail ourselves of every opportunity to advance and strengthen the revolutionary movement. We in are one sided. So is the Tribune. When a capitalist paper happens to support the workers it is only by mis- take The press is one of the most valuable weap- ons in the arsenals of the ruling class. It serves a double function, to make profit for its individual owners and to defend the system on which it lives. On trivial questions, the capitalist papers may differ but on some issue that strikes at a fundamen- tal capitalist principle, they bark in unison. Against the class press of the capitalists. we pit the class press of the workers—the Communist press. The Fight Must C0 On The temporary defeat administered to the pro- posed child labor amendment to the federal con- stitution is about as damaging an indictment as could possibly be made against the fatuous non- partisan political policy of the American Feder- Despite the support of the A. F. of L. twelve states have taken unfavorable action on the amendment and another state has voted to postpone action, which in this case means the equivalent of defeat, ratification by three-fourths of the 48 states being necessary. This does not mean that the proposed amendment the workers. Friends of the child labor amendment must have — leadership that will mal Weng. sit up and take notice. Until the A * ers do this, a fate similar to that met by t child | labor amendment will be the rule and not t ey . ception, in all their struggles. 2 “B. 4 0.” Plan Re ae William H. Johnston, former PRES in he 1 army and now president of the national Association of Machinists, r . — putation as a sensible labor leader, bosses, when he inttiated the class collaboration en A ist policy known as the B. & O. Plan rahe | mre nder this wood shops of the paren ier: and Ohio railroa : This plan was broached to sitet B. & O. by Johnston, a few weeks mens’ strike of 1922. It has p for the bosses and is gaining i Johnston has berdlded the B. & O. plant wide as an example of what can be the “new” methods of solving the repudiated as well as the plan itself, exen Johnston’s henchman Vice-President Conlon w ed the members of the lodge, that if they did n endorse the Johnston slate, such action wou taken all over the conutry.as 4 ‘repudiation | ‘the B. & O. Plan. ‘The repudiation of the B. & 0. Plan by the mem- | bers on whom it was first tried kicks the props trom underneath the Johnston scheme. wale the first time the employes of the Baltimore Ohio railroad had an opportunity to declare them- selves on the question and their ‘verdict is decisive. | tn The fight against the B. & O. Plan in the I. A. Jury ot M. has been inaugurated and led by the lett ! : 5 on prove, that the Ne is- wing under the leadership of the Trade Union i be utilized, against ee Educational League. That fight is now jaid—actions. and collections in favor to show tangible results. It will not end with of strik rs and for support of economic killing the B. & O. Plan but will retire from office | fights and political prisoners, etc. The the labor fakers who are eee tor it. /senaere X 1 N Relief headquarters. A Liar Tells the Truth—Once e r i gies Sante, : They will deprive the poorest It is not very often that a capitalist. editor a po n tells the truth. But something must have exploded the London treaty without any resist- in the editorial sanctum of the Chicago Tribune ande. It is the duty of the whole Ger- on January 27; because we find two strange edit- man working class to 8 2 orials in the ‘Tribune of January 28. One . slam at the Opera company, which is sub- activity bd aman 9. ia sidized by Samuel: Insull, and another ‘waa, « re} ——— — versal of position on the child labor amendment. |p... Formerly the Tribune was for the amendment but it changed its mind. Perhaps the editorial writer was sore because he was forced to write in support of the exploitation of ‘children tho his conscience urged him to follow the opposite course. Ashland. Au- What he has to say about the * interest; ce — i eg Feb. 5, there ing not because of his attitude towards that much will be a musical program to which puffed art, but for the light it sheds on capitalism. each of the proletarian orchestras Evidently the Tribune opera critic believed that n ee N the performances at the Auditorium were bunk urn to ee, definite pledge bel but the Tribune dared not offend Insull, tho the the well-known and extremely popular movie and dramatic critics could say what they orchestra of the Young ‘Workers’ pleased about the productions. they League. The Freiheit Mandolin’ Or- The following is an excerpt from itorial chestra, the South Slav Orchestra, the entitled: Now it ean be told“: At wasn’t civic — 5 the 2 —— Band are en opera and it wasn't grand. If our Mr. Moore in vected to co- operate. his accounts of what was given at the auditorium Bi Pag et bo cat Map re had felt at liberty to speak his piece as Mr. evik,” five ree ure Donaghey does of the stage and as Mae Tines does trom et Russia; and a three - reel of the movies he would have ‘said that. most of it cog tea 13 was mediocre and some of it worse than that. Lou ies of the “Amalgamated,” the Kubas can’t speak your mind about opera. This is the Colony, the F. S. R. tractor farnis, as first time it has been done and it may be the last. well as the purely Russian industrial 3 more rebirth as reflected in the Baku oil- You can’t even whisper around about it. If it’s fields, Rostov locomotive factories awful, the critic must find an aria to praise. If Zadkes magnesite quarries; Zlatoust it is mediocre he must say it was good and if it tron smelters, Volga fisheries, and oth. happens to be good it must be superlative . We'll see what we get from this bit of plain speaik: | Blow examen eau) e Roath m., but those who want to be sure t- ing which we have not dared to attempt before.” get in and get the best seats shoul This is plain, speaking with a vengeance. A come just as early as possible. Tick cyclone must hape hit the Tribune editorial room. ets are 50c, and can be bought fron Perhaps the principal owner of the paper blew in all Workers Party, Labor Defense anc Siar war — It is wha evi- ft that there is no legal reason for of the W. I. R. The In addition to the splendid. picture By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. melodies is dead, tho there is little liklihood of its passing and asked why in the blankety blank the child l 2 22 8 mr ee and over the opposition of the organized power of the labor amendment was being supported editorially fifty ticket stations already published Gros ee ee tay aia pi now pee then). = one ‘capitalists in the near future unless the supporterg|4d perhaps the poor editorial writer after being composer, conductor and violin-| day 1 should like, to make up an or- ‘of the proposed law follow the lead given by Ae to crawfish on that issue took it out on the 8 7 „ It. was soloist and guest director with ohestral program of rhapsodles. 1 Workers (Communist) Party and rally the masses civic opera. Anyhow we are grateful to the hack Lenin Meetings the Chicago Symphony Orchestra last should not put on it the second Hun- for the fight to put it over. Nothing can be ae-|¥#0 proved our contention that capitalist editors : | |Friday and Saturday. He played the|garian of Liszt, but htis first an- complished by the pussy footing policy follawed and journalistic hacks are paid liars. January 30. Bruch second concerto. The concerto * 3 — cope its — * by the A. F. of L. and the other liberal associations : N Ohio. Speaker: Robert Minor. . EN e e 8 Europe, the Hungarian Bela Bartok, , ) ey ea N e 4 , ald ; , ; ; * J a= pee . a ’ g * * , + 2 * 4 N 1 > A 2 a N ond 1 8 . — fe ‘ 8 9.4 Z 2 2 n — — eb * t . 421 1 . N re a * PRE eas pom wah Seth ete iene ® | ; *. + 8 L 2 1 * 8 ai i * 4 , ä 28 75 . on, * * . 5 : dg aha „ * 1 6 . N * whats q } N F ? 5 1 ‘ || the | Y wee = N 1 Pane + al 4 3* 2 be! Ca ae 7 ve a 7 4 2 * * 7 Co a 1 1 fags Pty 4 el te 1 4 N Fer 7 . 3 ‘the ra * é * . wp , * N r 2 Ai - A “ * = ; n y 2 7 ty ot ; 4 sa | Ry TA. 5 he be + Fe ot er en ree ＋ 5 7 7 t 4 | F ee ̃ „enn © 1 — ». the ff 99 175 24 * 10 a * 8 sar 25 r Theatre, which |Postponed ‘action, the z 2 a 1 . atifi . „ sus Pah Pt ay 25 Sow: 2 * Fra, 2 ah 2 ty avr * : ~~ * . 7 of 5 1 * rele . 3 " e ao? 5 . uno | al iA & 0 1 W 7 ees Py: 83 the : he the 4e 1 4 t eathe ec au * . Lap faa . ; 29 . rw 65 de SEE * *r 2 1 ber > Ne Pee. . —— Trane, a et : A Junior Tells of Communist glad and She always used to en 8 Hungary. — to us why we should apport When I lived in Hunthary in them. 1919, we had a Communist govern- ment led by Comrade Beln Kun. All the poor working people were in favor of this government be- cause it stood for them. In the school where I. went they i ‘tor the Each clansoom wae organized ped Poke te eee ers: Iw he en . : N A — i: . * * 0 ane ses ae. 429 N > tee ‘herr ha : N e world and how the Hungarian workers m done 80. 1 But attcr.a while the Roon nan ian soldiers came and killed 0 a ro 8 All thi e ps daa 001] missed {two Red Sol ‘very. very m and we never saw them again. And we not allowed to have: 5 5 mom 2 0 vod teachers bas; Spi Sa 4 I hope the 8 in Hun- or ea will soon come back and ta the governme nt again -% . Note. The cartoon in this column today, by Comrade Fishman, is the one referred to in our story on the eclipse in yesterday s Junior Column. — Ed. make the workin x! 8 8 2 N age 15, py: — Wicker Park 3 — Comrade M. HERMAN, akin 1 ‘Routiapion folk
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ment will appear every Saturday in The Daily Worker. _ danuary 81, 1925, The capitalist world is assured of a — esata malig its blind in order to ain an en a8 to the wheat has reached 1.62 dollars. The question has even been discussed in some newspapers, whether we are here confronted with a temporary overcoming of economic depression or with the commencement of a great industrial boom. | A great quantity of the capital ac eum in America is not only seek- ing new markets for the products of American industry, but also tor markets for the direct export of capi- tal. In the year 1923 London tssued securities to the value ot 2 million gold roubles; thirty-eight per cent English, forty-one per cent colonial and twenty-one per cent foreign. Dur- ing the year 1923 the United States ’ exported capital to the value of 1200 million gold roubles. In the first ten months of 1924 London issued secur- ities to the value of 1400 million gold roubles; of these, 300 million went During the same period New ork issued securities to the value of 5 milllard roubles, of which more than 2 million went abroad. In the search for markets for the export of capital American finance capital has alyeady left English capital behind. American Capital in Europe Another very import fact ts that this exported capital is not only in the hands of a few bankers or finan- ciers, but that the loans find sub- scribers among the ranks of the petty and middle bourgeoisie. The Aus- trian loan, amounting to 50 milion gold roubles, found 9,000 subscribers, the Japanese loan, amounting to 300 million gold roubles, 44,000 sub- 80 rs. The low rate of discount of the American banks has overcome the “fear of the unknown” existing among the middle and petty bour- geoisie; the latter are investing lar- ger sums of money abroad every year. It is interesting to cast even a fleet- American capital is being exported. | During the first ten months of 1924 ing glance places to where the United States lent (reckoned in gold roubles): 80 millions to Argen- tina, 300 millions to Japan, 60 mu- lions to Switzerland, 80 millions to Holland, to Czecho-Slovakia about 20 millions, to Hungary 18 millions, to Norway 50 millions, to Belgium 60 mi- lions, to Canada 280 millions, to Ger- many 220 millions, to France 200 mi lions,—besides a whole number of municipal and private loans. It is not surprising, therefore, that Coolfdge, after his re-election, declared: We can- not hope that we shall always remain an island of the blest whtcn will live apart from the rest of humanity. If we were unable to avoid partictpation in the war, with the causes of which we had nothing to do (') how could we think of avoiding responsibility for other world questions which are to be solved in the atmosphere of peace ana goodwill?” England 1 Roots. | Ik the question of capital 2 at present occupies the forefront pos- tion in America, in England it is the question of the export of goods which is engaging the greatest attention. The statistician, Edgar Crammond, calculates in his recent work that, as a result of the war, the national m- come of England has become consider- ably reduced and that from 1914 to the present day—if we take into consider- ation the reduced purc power of money—it has fallen from 24 to 21 milliards (reckoned in roubles). The present national income is about equal to that of 1907. It is upon this reduced national income that there lies the heavy burden of the enor- mously increased national debts, with the result, that the budget has to be increased fourfold. In consequence of this England, who in the year 1907 was able to devote about twenty-four per cent of her national income for the Situation at the China and to open the Russian mar- kets, as the consolidation of the ca order in the whole world is —. 4 necessary for the export of capital as for the export of goods, the whole of the year 1924 was charac- terized by the co-operation of England and America. 9 Between Both Countries The relative weakness of England in the sphere of capital-export, her close relations with the European mar- kets, is rousing great uneasiness among the English capitalists with re- gard to the difficulties which English capitalism will encounter in the event of the strengthening of German indus- try. Hence a number ot vital ques- tions regarding the reconstruction of capitalism assume another form to the United States than to England. These differences show the varying degree of interest which England and America have in the colonial questions. The Anglo-American co-operation, in spite extension of the influence of her capt- of all the compliments of the English EVERY IMPERIALISM HAS ITS OWN PUPPET | We will leave the “peace good- will” of Mr. Coolidge aside. e presi ucht of America, who was returned to power with the aid of a party which in the year 1920 defeated Wilson un- der the slogan of isolation from the rest of the world, expresses in these words the fact that American capital has already penetrated into all coun- tries of the world to such an extent, that today it has become one of the most important factors in world poll- tics. The American newspapers are fuli of articles dealing with the trade of America with the whole worid, with the question of the export of capital und with all the conflicting questions of world politics. This is a complete change of front which only becomes intelligible when one has studied the attitude of America to world questions in the period from 1919 to 1922. The United States, after having protected her industries by enormously high tariff walls, is now Competing to an ever greater extent with all the other countries of the world, and for this purpose is employing her enormous accumulated capital, the export of which constitu nothing else than the powerful weapon of long term credits, which America had very un- willingly granted hitherto. . tal at home and abroad, is now only, able to employ about ten per cent for this purpose. As English capital is not im a post tion to compete with America as re- gards the export of capital for the purpose of capturing markets, and as it does not possess such a big home market as America as would permit it to reduce the cost of productton, and in addition is suffering from the industrializing of its own colonies, English capitalism is faced with far more serious difficulites than ts Amert- can capitalism. The above mentioned Mr. Crammond calculates that the share of England in the trade of the world increased in the period from 1912 to 1922 from 13.8 to 17.3 per cent. This increase in the share of England in the world’s trade (in the first place at the cost of Germany) does not, however, correspond to the imerease in the total sum of English trade. In 1922 it was 25 per cent lower than in 1912. The necessity for creating the pre-conditions for normal trade war the driving force which caused Eng- land to participate in the attempts to solve the reparation question. It 18 his also which is causing England to strive to restore a firm regime at all costs in her colonies, to “pacify (By Moore in Moscow Pravda.) The U. S. Has Coolidge; England Its Baldwin; Germany Its Stresemann. statesmen to the United States, has not led to the disappearance of the profound antagonisms between these two powers. One must, however, for the time being reckon that the efforts —arising from the greater strength of American capital and from the deep crisis of English capitalism—to cre- ate favorable conditions in shattered Europe, in the colonies and in the semi-colonial countries for the absorp- tion of goods and for the 1 of capital, will not only for the time being to the solidarity of these powers against the Soviet Union, as well as against the colonial and semi- colonial peoples, but also to the at- tempt to create favorable. pre-condi tions as quickly as possible for the penetration of English and American capital into these countries. American imperialism is striving to conquer the world; English imperial ism is striving to maintain its con- quests. A collision between these two will take place in the future. Today, however, they both require at all costs an extension of the world market These efforts of the two imperialist powers constitute the most charac teristic feature of the international year, situation at the opening of the new
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E are many comrades who cannot conceive of special work among women by a Communist Party. Many women comrades do not part in this special work, because they fear that they will be considered fem- | geois (Communist) Party must do its ut- | ps inists. Comrades would not take this attitude, if they really did understand what this kind of work means for the party. It is true that our knowledge and experience in Communist work among women here in America is very limited and we must look for guid- ance to our comrades abroad with their mature knowledge in this kind of work. The reasons which compelled the Communist International to give spe- cia] attention to work among women the revolution, in Hungary their pass- ive resistance helped to destroy the revolution. Capitalism has perfected its machinery so, as to make women in the mass a bulwark of conserva- tism and reaction. Situation Among Women. First, the women are mentally and emotionally separated from the men; then their isolation is used to intensi- fy the economic subjection which they share with the men; their inferior po sition is used as a means of settinr them into antagonism against the Ke 2 , Agee — e 7 * lye ee 1 E n 3 re? 1 Su r ty — most to overcome the | fr men; finally their separation as a sex is used to make them active for re- action against the workingmen active in the class struggle. , The weakness of the mass of wo- men from the point of organization makes them a serious menace in al- most every fight, as the capitalist ide ology imparted to them from the school, pulpit and press fosters a para- sitica] outlook which leads to the ac- ceptance of low wages. The woman tramping in search of work is threat- ened with danger from which men aré free and more easily submit to exploitation. The thought of her chil- dren going hungry also compells the mother to accept low wages. Add to this the jealousies and disiikes aris- ing from their sex competition with each other for marriage mates— itself a by product of their economic condi- tions, the comparative inactivity of women in the trade unions and their easy delusion by bourgeois agencies is all too terribly explained. The ma- ternal functions of women place then in a position of utter dependence and very often into humiliation unmspeak- able. Women are very susceptibie to in- fluence by the bourgeois feminist or ganizations. These feminist organiza- their children and men folks. The bourgeoisie see the importance of spe. cial work among wemen. The bour- geoisie are exerting much effort to di- vert the proletarian women from their class interests thru these feminist or- ganizations. We, the Workers (Com- munist) Party are only now waking up to the realization of this important work. The workingclass possesses in its women powerful forces which are not yet mobilized. These forces if systematically employed, would be tapable of exercising a decisive infiv- ence Qn. the issue of the class strug- gle. id the duty of our party to start this work. Destroy Feminist Ideas. The constant worsening of the pos! tion of the working women creates“ favorable conditions for work among them. The task of the party is to give Communist direction to the dis- content among women if the work- ingclass study the prejudices and tra- ditions that still shackle her, bring home to her the lesson that she is one with the world’s workers. We We Need a Separate Women’s . Organization? | Some of us believe that the Com- munist message a to women in a very peculiar way. “The women of the workingclass will not enter a Com- munist Party, but they will become rmembers of a separate women’s or ganization independent of the party,“ say some of our comrades, therefore, it is necessary to carry on our Com- can we expect to win the sympathies of the women of the workingelass for our party, if we (the party) work with these women on issues related to their very life in the name of an organiza- tion other than the Workers (Com- nunist) Party? This separate organ- zation will absorb all the sympathies _ zud gain all the influence of these wo nen, because it will take up the issues ‘elated to their very life. It has been he experience of our comrads in oth r countries, that women become th: irdent advocates of Communism, onc: hey realize that the Communist Par ty is with them in-their daily needs. The Comintern is opposed to the form- ation of separate women's organiza- The C. E. C. of the party made a decision that all political work among women be carried on in the name of the Workers (Communist) Party: that every unit of the party beginning with the branch up to the C. E. C. N 0 1 . Feo N. * 13 5 N n 2 * tad * “A Ay ‘ tt PS enh 5 a 2 Ke i — * P : 2 aie 2 2 * +. 5 ä : r a7 5 1 24 n ea har rete. EPF 2 nt 1 tek -U ea § cy yh? a * as « N * ** 4 7 7 having its basis in production, that {is in the workshops and factories.” 1 A : if 5 11 ti housewives. The co-operative move- ment will draw the proletarian women into the whirlpool ef political and economic activity. & is the task of the party to direct the proletarian nake it their ment of dining halls, kindergartens, nurseries, etc. We shall work for the realization of the active participation of the co-operatives in class warfare by means of opening of dining halls for strikers, unemployed, provision for their wives and children, etc. Our women comrades in Coney Island are oreparing to carry on work of this ind. Care must be taken that tlic ‘ind of work is not given a human! arian character. As instance, the | ceeding of the unemployed must be ‘ealt with in relation to the genera) question of unemployment. Fight for Everyday Needs. meetings must be arranged for ‘hese issues. Local councils may A Brilliant Book national working class movement. Paper, 50 Cents Order rr rr Blvd. quaint themselves with the latest theses of the C. I. on work among women, as our work must be based on these theses. Work among women in industry. This must be the most important phase of our work among women. “The experience of the revolutionary struggle of the workingclass shows, i ee * . esa ca eas F = ee, 1 * . 7 * 2 418 7 5 * „„ i e ‘a 7 73 * 1 22 a * oa ¢ * * * 7 — 2 * . Yate Lee 5 * A Ee 1 Fz 1773 ty and the masses of working women. To give these women's committees a tees. To carry on this work more ef- fectively, our women comrades must Account must be taken of our »xperiences. Our progress will be lower than we wish, but it will be - — -_ ; W939 + > by Leon Trotsky Cloth, $1.00 from Chicago, Illinois »~*+%*%*% &% %4 &% 4% 464 4444 & 4 Rares as 1 8 se oa — * . 4 „ 5 8 * “as wake 1 mr si * ws * * 5 3 R. . ee * : 7 - , , < * 4 a *. 3 1 2 A * J dive’ SF ee 4 * 3 * — 2 3 4 7 . . — 1
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& ed es 7 $f ¢ ee nf * — 7 eu * . ? a ig PS ea ee ee Be 2 N FEE ä n , e e . he 1 3 oS het th 2 8 8 nee „ n t ‘ 7 ; bee Gem joo "form. ‘These on > : First the country, its power its fu- tous * and with th — This will be a free literature, which 8222 i Get down to the job then, comrades . We have before us a great and difficult problem: we must create a rich proletarian literature, narrowly and indissolubly bound to the socialist workers’ movement. . | All the journals, all the periodicals, ee want But in | art“? eee all the bookshops should immediately of Absolute freedom is a bourgeots or | harness themselves to the task of re- -}concede me the right to maintain or] anarchist fiction (for anarchism is a] organizing in order to become the or- to break my alliance with people who] bourgeois theory the wrong way] gan of one or other of the organiza write in such and such a fashion. round). One cannot live in society | tions affiliated to our party. The party is a voluntary organiza- and be free towards society. The It is only after this work that so- tion, mn m rums, freedom of the bourgeois writer, or cialist literature will deserve the first spiritually, and then matertally, | artist, or actress, is a mask of inde-| mame; it is only then that it will be man proverb. It is se of my compart-| if it does not take care to decide the pendence concealing a real depen-| capable of carrying out its tasks; it son of literature with a cog in the ma- position of those people who propa-| dence on the money of parasites and is only then that even within the chine of the movement. There will be | gate opinions against it. And to fix souteneurs. framework of the bourgeois society, th no lack of hysterical intellectuals to] what is for and what is a e We socialists tear aside this hypoc- it will be able to free itself from bour- yelp in distress at this conception. party we have the program of the|risy and unmask their false standards, | geois bondage and bind itself to the which, according to them, will debase, party as a critérion, its tactical reso-| not to arrive at a literature “above movement of the truly revolutionary will destroy, will “bureaucratize” anc 1 tions, its statutes, and finally the class” (that will only be possible in a class. xperiences of international] socialism, | socialist society, in a society without (The above article first appeared in minds.“ free criticism, free “literar: | he whole experience of voluntary as classes), but to oppose to this so. the “Novaia Jhizn” of November 13, endeavor, ( of the proletariat. called free literature, which is really | 1905, and has been translated from a a party ot] allied with the bourgeoisie, a litera- French version appearing m the Ca- geois intellectual individualism. the. masses; we are in an epoch of] ture bound openly to the proletariat.| hiers du Bolshevisme” of December : | This will be a literature truly free, | 19, 1924). a REPRE SO OST 9 rere N rr 1 7 1 ‘ * ae, * ‘ " 1 ' 3 5 | ; xs 2 f N 22 . : ; a NE EC x r . 2 — * 8 ‘A 2. . ‘ . 1 : ey . rf a . 7. Py 4~ * * 1 5 n , * * * 4 * Pat ~ > i> Sok 5 3 * 8 r 5 3 PFC . De 3 x W | d with adequate presentation, or even 1 or with poor equipment. Bourgeois cul- - a 3 ture is, conventional. It has no place is ire, scorching the soul, where we might tempt the imagination to roam N New York there are about one eee afield, or out of those iimits set by truth—incom thousand theaters or places ot] ber 5s, ay pus the powers that be, with Sunday as l may cem to intellectuals and | smusement coming under the head e. iy retreating. Shaw's “Candida” and | “CHO! ethics and standards. New emocrats—that literary i work 2 Sr 2 aan montanes a to the rest of the socialist work of | seven million people avail themselves | Both are well given. live in it long without seeing the ob- party. Wri the | of opportunities to visit these theaters} “What Price Glory” is one of those | vious narrowness of its lite in the vast — 8 ht Ch to find diversion and food for thought accidental dramas given at times majority of its forms. It, therefore, ‘tions. Publishing establishments,| in the portrayal of life buzzing all] which 100 per cent “cultural” and pa- expresses liselt in its art; necessari- bookshops, reading rooms, libraries,|®Tound them. Yet, in these thousand | triotic America considers too strong, | ty in reflections of that life and its - 1 — pws 2 . goto drama takes on the same dull hues. ; placed cisively as in any capi any na- human The hopeful signs are the demand vase under the control of the tion, the level of culture of the nation | Prompts. them to accept such works for better drama. It is always evident | The organized soclallst proletartat | there are scarcely half a dozen plays, as Part of the philosophy of life, even | among the people but the production be considered as tho it hurts and they become students | of drama is in the hands of those who © crema ain — tof wregren, Spirit of the and in this | Phase of life. to make money. s sphere, should throw off the outlook| Muste is the most emotional of the an worked a little and this is what] 4 few are making splendid efforts and the drama the most animat-| counts much, for the drama, in every to get such pictures of life to the 3 see in the writer only the man who | ing perhaps, and probably, many agree pe cate Bh ge ng all peoples, ia people as will satisfy, in part at any — sells his writings to earn his living.] the supreme form of cultural develop- psychical l — a rate, this demand for better drama woe ee ee 3 1 a remarkable step for- rama presented in our cities. The Communist has a magnificent phase of propaganda in such portrayals of life. We shall take advantage of it. | | bring the true drama to the people, 3 a = F — 4 5 3 1 2 + 7 8 3 : 85 7 and corrupted by a Fu- - — tar 11 a — BOOKS FOR THINKERS in the shape of decisions and resolu- u : SCIENCE, LITERATURE tions settling the whole apne 5 feel so little in America. Here is a RRR . point. What concerns us, is that our j }} combre coloring in the pirates and in|| A"Y Book In Print at Once. class consclous proletariat should |‘ | he usual bourgeois attitude towards Jimmie Higgins Book Shop understand that here is a new prob- | ‘ >, animal life, they are enlivened and 127 University Place lem that has to be faced frankly, and| 4 >| the gloom is dissipated by the fun all NEW YORK CITY everything possible done to solve it.]; is a most interesting game >} around them which continually keeps A Workers Party Book Shop After having delivered ourselves J and labor politics is more so. EI us in the humor of brightness and n. from the chains of censorship, we do A You will learn many angles of ‘ keen appreciation of life being worth | YY" ** *""" "YY YY rrr rrrY not want to be the captives of bour- ¢q if from > | living. geois commerce and its relationships. | ‘ >| How many children and women and The Walden We want to create a press that is ‘ “A —— * ess- men have not even the opportunity to . | freed not only from police control, e Reactionaries - Bl see such a play? The struggle for a . but also from the influence of capital by Alexander Bittelman , | living is so sharp and oppressive, mon- Book Sho and from private ambitions, and above]; in the Febri cen ue. tin ey is so hard to get, time is so devour- A ‘ 7 all freed from anarchist-bourgeois in J Wer Monthly. If you don't on essential routine — 307 Plymouth Court These last words will be an object | J S2>scribe—you surely will after g Jim take advantage of auch plays State | of derision to the reading public. reading this article in order to even if they lived near or in a city (Between and Dearborn 8 “Good heavens!” some burning apos-| f et others of such interest. 6 Just South of Jackson) tle of “intellectual freedom” will | A ä Little, often no effort is made to - CHICAGO
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* P “2 beg La 3 2 2 2 — ‘ n ae * — * * = — 1 x. a 1 0 > - é ® . — —ů ea * . | Cz * ai ee “a x . Ee ee Oe ce ee ee eee, By M. A. SKROMNY. HE ‘tecal Russian counter-revolu- tionary sheet pretends not to un derstand why Communists are agains! militarism in the capitalist countries and at the same time in favor of arm- ing the workers in Soviet Russia. In an > editorial attacking. the DAILY WORKER and the Communists in gen- eral, the emigre czarist officer who is editing the sheet exclaims: “We are also against militarism, but why nor protest against the militarism of Mos. cow? ‘A Communist should preach peace and brotherhood among nations. He should protest against militarism always and everywhere.” Thus we are getting a lesson in | Communism from a counter-revolu- tionist. There is one thing certain about it. This former oificer of the czar’s army has learned a lesson from the Communists and that is the reaso1 why he keeps at such a distance from Russia. An armed class consciour proletariat is quite a dangerous thing for capitalists and their tools and henchmen. Therefore this editor “is also against militarism, and every where.” But this kind of bunk will not foo the workers. They know too wel from the lessons received in Germany Hungary, Finland and other countrie that as soon as they are disarmed th capitalists will crush them. And tha is exactly what this “lover of peace’ wants to see in Russia. But we are not a pefce society for darning socks, in times of war. It is true that we ere for peace and broth. erhood among nations, but we are alsc for war against the capitalists, always and everywhere! That is why we are for the armed forces defending the revolution in Soviet Russia and against the armed forces defending capitalism in the United States, Japan and other bourgeois countries. We are for the arming of the proletariat and for the disarming of the bourgeoisie. The counter-revolutionary editor claims he does not understand this, even after receiving a practical lesson from the Russian revolution! This ifen’t the first lie printed in that paper, and the Russian workers know it. So does the editor himself. It is just one of many devious forms of anti-Com- munist propaganda. In another editorial this newspaper deliberately misquotes the DAILY WORKER as stating: “All power ir 4 3 he a +*, 7 4 ¥ af * 2 , f — f 9 Tae at 4 oe cin Tac ae 1 9 * 4 — ag on oe: eee ae ug 3 —— ee „ 2 2 — * “ = * n r Stix SES. ike — 2 er = 8 n e a os „ ba a ns ne p 1 re es — — — ae ey 2 i. . r ES toe a „ 5 50 75 * Aa a 2 t Prk. S re N WAT ee 4 — 4 2 * ‘ 32 N — . jd a : re) ne . 22 2 D = r N ‘ee = - 1 ; — IEE it Fabiana — r . RE. ta = = 2 — Bow See 2 “Bet OS at ea he “= ee 1. * 1 ra * * (By Boris Efimov, in Moscow Izvestia.) Under the smoke-gcreen of attacking Bolshevism the British imperialists are crusting the subject nations of Africa and Asia. la in the 2174 : i 1 f peasants support its policies.” > ¢ *® By deliberately misquoting these paragraphs and cutting’ them up in such a manner as to suit the purpose of the counter-revolutionists, the ed- itor of the white guard sheet is trying to create hatred against the Soviet government and the Communists in general, But again the czarist editor knows perfectly well that he is lying. It is not only a habit, it is in the nature of these blackguards of journalism to lie. ’ . When we caught him with the goods in connection with the “quoting” of a non-existing editorial from the Odessa Izvestia the editor retreated coving himself with another fib: he claimed that we promised to send him the copy of the Odessa Izvestia, but we did not do it, therefore he is not able to convince himself that he was lying. The thousands of readers of the DAILY WORKER know that there isn’t a word of truth in this statement. We never promised to send him this other copy. Neither do we in- may attempt to prove something or convince one who is hon est but mistaken. But to try to prove anything to an editor who is covered with lies as a solider in the trenches with cooties, is an utter waste of time. A Letter from an Egyptian Worker in Moscow. ITH hasty steps Igo on my way to the factory. It is early, and the stillness of the streets is seldom broken by the rattling of a tram-car carrying the workers to their work. When get into the tram-car, which is already crowded with workpeople hurrying to their work, I look out of the window. The tram-car runs its usual course thru the old familiar streets with the same old houses and in- numerable Moscow churches, which I pass on my way to work every day. Yet this particular morning my thoughts are somehow carried far away from these sights that have become so familiar to me. My mind wanders back to far-away Egypt, and in my fancy I behold the sights of Egyptian build- ings and mosques, and instead of the Muscovite women going to the mar- ket, I dream of seeing Egyptian women with veiled faces. From my lips involuntarily the words escape: Lee Stake ... ultimatum”. .. Zaghul Pasha Sudan A’Revolt. My neighbor stares at me in surprise, thinking, no doubt, that I am raving mad. At last I arrive at the factory. I am working at a big aeroplane factory the “Duxe”, which employes fifteen hundred workers. It is a factory of great renown throughout Russia. I have been working here already for some time, and have become quite skilled in my work. Here I am met by the friendly welcome of my mates, who are already gathered in groups, waiting for the whistle. In a corner I see a group of young Communists of the Young Communist League, and the girls with the red kerchiefs, talk- ing gaily and smiling, seem to breathe the very vigor of life. Suddenly the whistle blew. Everyone rushed to the place of work. Yet I am still a prey to my involuntary musings, and I go — | — i about my work in a somewhat absent minded manner, which is altogether unusual for me. Instead of saying to my mate: “Hand me over that ham- mer,” I-say: “Hand me over that ul- timatum.“ The whistle blew again for dinner, and before taking my meal I rushed to our club, where I eagerly read to- day’s Pravda which announced in big headlines: Anglo-Egyptian Con- flict. Revolt in Sudan. Five hundred thousand pounds sterling fine. onstration at Alexandria; and so on. A cold sweat covered my face, and with bated breath I read again and again the telegraphic news from my far away home. In the adjoining rooms one could hear an amateur play on the piano, and the clatter of hundreds of workers enjoying their meal. ‘ A light touch on my arm called me back to reality. I turned round and saw Volodya, a general favorite of the place. He asked me: “What is the matter with you today?” In reply I showed him the paper containing the news which had disturbed me. At first he looked quite cursorily through. Dem- | the news, but after a while his face flushed and assumed an angry expres- sion. A few minutes later an improvised meeting was organized by Volodya. With the newspaper in his hand, he told the audience about the stirring events in Egypt. As soon as he un- ished his speech I got up on the plat- form where I was met by a storm of applause, which. betokened every- body’s sympathy for the Egyptian workers. In broken Russian I de- scribed the untold sufferings of my Egyptian brothers, the terrible op- pression of the hard working felahs (the agricultural laborers) the severe distress of the Egyptian working class, the brutal oppression by British imperialism, the mockery of the so- called “Independence of Egypt” the importance’ of the Suez Canal, the Nile and the Sudan to the British im- perialists and so on. The meeting ended in Youd cheers and cries: Down with British imperial- ism! Hands off Egypt! Long live the Egyptian workers and felahs! In a happy mood I leave the place; I feel that the whole of my fellow workers here are in hearty sympathy with the cause of the people of Egypt, which has no friend elsewhere in the world, not even in the _ so-called League of Nations. And I turn to the workers of western Europe, particular- ly of England, with the question: “What was your response to the news of the latest events in Egypt?” Hilel Mahmud, Moscow, December 11, 1924. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” for the DAILY WORKER. 4 TECHNICAL AID TO HOLD MOCK TRIAL FEB, 8 Counter - Revolution in Prisoners’ Dock The mock trial held last winter in the Soviet School where Prostitution was the defendant aroused much talk and interest in the Russian colony. It was an interesting and useful dis- cussion. At present the society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia is ar- ranging another such trial on the more interesting subject, The Counter-révo- lution will be put on trial at the So- viet School, 1902 W. Division St., Sunday, Feb. 8, at 5:30 p. m. There will be ten defendants representing many phases and parties of the counter- revolution. There will de many witnesses for the defense and the prosecution. Many documents will be read. The prosecutor will be the actor Luganov. The defense will be represented by the actor DeModoy and another person who does not care to reveal his name at present. The Russian workers of Chicago are aroused and it is expected that the hall will be packed. Aue Te ast, uber: 425
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* 1 4 4 * 5 2 wow * 2 . 5 ; ; 2 = . * * 7 * * 1 ‘ 5 \ - * * = * 3 2 — . * f ‘ — „ 9 * — 0 * sale 4 N ’ » B * * * : * 5 = 2 A - > ‘ 1 ; fi 4 ’ . * a * - J 3 5 bg i a 5 Fe 115 i 5 2 8 | ky is : rection. | Comrade Trotsky is beginning to see things in ever darker colors. He prophesies the decline of the country on the eve of an indisputable improve ment in the economic situation, he makes false diagnoses and proposes wrong remedies, he loses more and more of his followers, etc. Let us, call to mind that Comrade Trotsky, a the time of his first encounter with Comrads Lenin and the Lentnst C. C., at the time of the dispute over the Brest peace, had a considerable portion of the party on his side. At the time of the second encounter with Lenin, in 1931 (trade union discus- sion), Comrade Trotsky still had about a fifth of the delegates to the party conference on his side, and this in the presence of Lenin. During last year’s discussion Trotsky’s following was already much smaller, but never- theless there were still hundreds of tsky without wishing it himself, has given expression, not to the mood of the proletarian masses, but often involu- tarily to the mood of other sections of the population. If we pursue the line of develop- . ment of Comrade_Trotsky, if we test his latest political evolution in al! its details during the last two or three and some- from the right but from the left. Was it not Comrade Trotsky who accused the Comintern that they had “missed” | not a left“ criticism? But when W. bear in mind that along with the left“ phrases of Comrade Trotsky there stands the fact that Trotsky, during the whole of 1923, supported the right wing of the C. P. of Germany, and on the other hand the fact that the right elements of all sections of the Com- intern during last year’s discussion supported the standpoint of Trotsky then the question is seen in quite another light. When we remember that even in January, 1924, the draft resolution of Comrade Trotsky, Radek and Piatakov contained passages, ac- cording to which if the C. P. of Ger- many in October, 1923 had entered upon a revolt it would today be a . heap ot ruins, then it becomes clear that Comrade Trotsky here, as in all the other questions which he deals with in the “Lessons of October”, has not been in any way consistent. In the activity of Comrade Trotsky there is much that is individual, much that is the mere reflection of passing moods, much that is brilliant. His platform is not yet finally settled. His political standpoint shimmers in all the colors of the rainbow. Our task consists in understanding what sub stance there is in all this, what is the basis of all this; and we maintain that the basis consists of something which is not Bolshevist and not Leninist. From whencescomes this variety of form? It has its basis in the fact a downward di- Soviet e N realized. It is hardly necessary to years, it is not difficult to encounter | our 0 1 i 22 * i i 8 i é 7 E88 will be able to f E 1110 es il i 8 i Se 1 1 2 § f Hi i is i 15 ptt 1 the fact that he supported all elements 75855 : 4 i This installment is part of a pam- phiet“Leninism or Trotzkyism” now in preparation. it includes articles by three outstanding figures in the Russian Communist Party: G. Zinoviev, I. Stalin and C. Kamen- ev, to form a most timely and im- portant contribution to a discussion of world interest. The pamphlet will be of 64 pages, selling at 20 cents and will be ready at the con- clusion of this serial publication. saw the masses in action. It saw ruthless handling of the by the Bolsheviki in the first period of the October revolution, and the con- cessions of the Bolsheviki to the bour- geoisie in 1921, when these same ruthless Bolsheviki were compelled to introduce the new economic policy. It now knows the value of the real re- lation of forces which, among others consists in the international bour }geois environment of the first Soviet country. It has its new intelligenzia, 7 at any rate provided the party with a good opportunity of analysing a devia- tion from Leninism and thinking more — into the fundamentals of m. Of course, the party must insist that party discipline is also binding for Comrade Trotsky; and we are con- tion of the Soviets from the party” would not merely have remained on ‘of the emi- point out to a Bolshevik that such a tendency would have had innumefable our work, and that we create such an atmosphere as will enable them to ‘ender useful service for our cause. f, however, the question of special- ‘sts had been solved, not according to Lenin but according to Trotsky, it ‘onld have meant the greatest polit- ical concession to the new bourgeoisie 4. in the questions of the inner life of the party we would have had to recognize that, not the workers at the benches but the youths in the high schools constitute the barometer of the party; the youths in the high schools, among whom there are ex- cellent proletarian elements, but among whom there are not a few peo- ple who are connected by a thousand social ties to the petty bourgeoisie and, through them, to the Nep and the new bourgeoisie. 5. We should not have carried out the currency reform because, accord- ing to Trotsky, “first” industry had to be restored, and then the currency reform was to be taken in hand. It is not neeessary to mention that if we had accepted this “tngenious” pro- posal, the weight of the socialist ele- ment upon the economy of our coun- try would only have been reduced and the new bourgeoisie would have there- by become stronger. 6. As regards the question of our relation to the peasantry, we should have committed the greatest errors. Instead of the beginning of an alliance with the peasantry, we should be al- ‘ogether estranged from them. The veasantry, alienated by our errors, would have sought another political ‘eader, and of course would have found it in the new bourgeoisie. _|geoisie with a keen class-conscious- in this party. educated for the most part in our edu- cational establishments. It has learned to penetrate into the struggle lof tendencies within our own party, vinced that the party will be able to insist on this. The more clearness there is in the party regarding the question of Leninism and of Trotsky- ism, the less ground there will be for such an attempt as Comrade Trotsky has undertaken. The less response there is in the party to this attempt, the less desire he will have to re- peat it. And the response this time is very small. Comrade Trotsky has so changed the form of his “platform” that there is only room for one man It is a bourgeoisie which has passed through the fire of the greatest revo- lution; a bourgeoisie which under- stands how to bring about its alliance with the leaders of the international bourgeoisie. In one word, it is a bour- ness; an adaptable bourgeoisie, which has become more clever through the experiences of the revolution and bet- ter understands the importance of the workers’ party and the currents with- Trotsky declared the student youth to be the reliable “barometer”. We did not agree with him then and we do not agree with him now. But it must be stated that even this, not entirely ideal, barometer has not responded this time as in recent years, which proves that the student youth do not — to replace Leninism by Trotsky- The best means to hold Comrade Trotsky back from further errors, which will estrange him still further from Bolshevism, is for the whole party as one man to repudiate his dev- jation, and then we hope he will soon retrieve his errors. It is to be hoped that Comrade Trot- sky, when he perceives the ful- ness of this tendency and the im- ity of the party against his enormous — will turn back from his wrong Comrade Lenin more than once formulated the lawn the political evolution of Comrade Trotsky. [If things are going well, Comrade Trot- approaches the Bolshevist line; when things are going bad, then Com- rade Trotsky inclines to the right. In order to keep him back from turning to the right, the ideological defense of the whole party is necessary. The party will say its final word, and once again the premature hopes of the enemy will be disappointed. The Bolshevist party will receive a new and more powerful steeling, and true Leninism will become the ideological uipment of the whole party down to the last member. os Cob bat Re — a — We must not disguise the fact: the social composition of our state appar- atus is such, that an important part of the personnel of this apparatus must be considered as an agency of this new bourgeoisie. The same must be said regarding a certain section of the students and of the intelligenzia in general. To demand from the Bolshevist Party in the years 1921 to 1924, in the period of transition, the before men- tioned six points, means nothing less than to help, even if unwillingly, the new bourgeoisie. . | Comrade Trotsky has taken a wrong turning. He wants to fight against the exaggerated “sectarianism” of the old Bolsheviki, which appears to him as “narrow-mindedness”, and in re- ality he is fighting against the bases of Bolshevism. As a matter of fact, of course without wishing it, he is ren- dering the class enemy an invaluable service. We ask the former and present fol- lowers of Comrade Trotsky, whether they are aware that every attack of Comrade Trotsky against the Bol- shevik C. C. since 1921 has been hailed throughout the whole of the non- bol- shevik camp with ever-increasing joy? Marx has already said that one can express the feeling of the petty bour- geoisie without oneself being a small — — course, — e Trot- sky * t intentions... But 5 way to hell is paved with cod Tatoe. tions. Comrade Trotsky must once and for all give up “saving” our party from alleged errors. He must under- stand and admit his own political errors, which for the greater part arise from the remants of his political ideology of the time from 1903 to 1917, 1 * * | a Te Mt 2 +
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98 * 15 — * * * 1 — 891 ä Py Mes 4 ** 7% + est te 5 2 2 — 1 * ow * r * 4. „ ear wee 85 * oni eee Lp pW * ny r N n Nn a ese a eat ee . . — — * » 4 — * ~ > 8 n a * * 5 a ry N j : g 5 7 af f * 1. 7 * — * — * 1 * ri | ver tn « i. * : . 1 * peasants as * Wie. wee br union delegation in proletariat 8 5 of the working class of the Soviet Un- ion will help to realize this unity in erder to conduct the fight against world capitalism with united forces.” Comrade Ben Tillet declared: said that Georgia at present presents a picture of anarchy and murder, that 500,000 members of the Red Army are suppressing the liberty of Georgia threatening women and children with the bayonet, and that as a result al bourgeois ties emanate from white beasts. But we found them to be hu man beings. Instead of the ‘national nowhere does she enjoy such rights ar in the Soviet Union. The Russian pro- able to find outside the frontiers o the Red republics. The Russian trade group of former mensheviki, among | them being: Fartuv, Ruchadez, and Dzamanashbvilli | 5 S 220600000 as Pyar, 7 . 4 al ef 171 3 + | i i * i i . — ed as representatives to the Second International. It is clear that their 7 2 2 g i : i . i : ff H 1 TE fit H iH fe 3 | | 2 I i hee: PEE | ji ; | i aT 7 al il 5 4 F capturing state power. point. * * wished to continue her line of thought, added in the name of the young revo lutionary journalists of Japan: “You indicate the way and we follow.“ Comrade Hesse, the representative of the C. P. of Germany hastened to rejoice our workers’ correspondents with the successes of their brothers sess 600 factory nuclei which already issue a kind of wall newspaper; with us, however, they are newspapers which are passed from hand to hand.” ord of the past days, the days of struggle and of the strengthening of the proletariat, and the revolu- AILY WORKER. In order to make to refiect the life of the wide laboring TO WRITE TO US. This new department “ will a as there will be sufficient letters from our read the life and bg K under which our masses struggle. Try to make the letters ae ee oe ee ae ee Se workers in other sections the country. Try te make th THE NEW BIG INITIATIVE. The Second Conference of the Workers’ Correspondents of the “Pravda.” delegates had come to the conference from all parts of Russia; from sunny Georgia with its eternal summer, from far-off Siberia, from the Caucasus, from the Ural and Taschkent,—over 300 men, the representatives of 50,000 workers’ and village correspondents. > em short and to the R s up to the farthest corner of Russia, from Germany, Japan, France, Eng- land, from the east and the west, they are all endeared te the proletar- fan Pravda of Lenin. A pile of letters—a heap of pres- @énts. which have been lovingly fa shioned by the workers in the various factories and workshops in their lei- sure hours. The conference of the workers and village correspondents which was convened by the Pravda undoubted- ly constitutes a very important stage in the development of the workers and village correspondents movement. A whole year has elapsed since the first conference. But in this year the movement has grown and has ob- tained a sure and firm foothold. It has created the basis of its organiza- tion, attained international impor- tance and found a response in a whole number of countries. There has not only begum an ex- change of information between our workers and their comrades abroad. In this way the movement is al- ready capturing international posi- tions. The experiences of a whole year save, before all, fully and completely justified the attitude of the first con- ference regarding organizatory ques- tions. The non-binding character of the decisions, the fact that the corre- spondents must not be elected or ap- pointed, the non-recognition of the correspondents, the peculiarity of the organizatory form as the best guar- antee against officialism and bureau- cracy—all these principles have stood the severe test of practice. The conference has now continued the line laid down: organizatory con- nection with the newspapers, leader- ship of the workers’ correspondents movement by the party newspap..;s and by the editors; immediate spe- cific p political education (his- tory of the party, program and sta- tutes, tics, Leninism, etc.); exact definition of the functions of party work, and of the work by the pers; detailing of the organ- atqry mutual relations in the direc tion icated by the first conference. The situation is different with the village correspondents. „Here the first steps have vet to be faken. All the participants in the conference, all comrades have thoroughly understood what enormous and general political importance the village correspondents will have in the future. All have rec- ognized the general political impor- tance of the problem at the present moment. And therefore they have proceeded with such deliberation and tion stones for the village correspond- ents’ organization. Beside the question of the workers, the village and the army correspond- ents, the question of the youth corre- spondents was also dealt with. The new form of organization, which has proved itself to be sufficiently some parties are already following our footsteps. ‘ elastic in order to serve new cultural aims, is proceeding to victory. have long since expired. such caution to the laying of founda- ,. 12
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37... AS OCC 8 ee mR 4 . > 75 N « ae FS aw See — 5 bo 1 5 “> t n . * C en Se aer n * ae eee pay Oe + oe ee — ee Gr ee oe me 2 —— me - ——— On ere — * = a — 2 — — — 4 — — — — — OO —— — 1 . By HARRISON GORE T is said, and it is probably true, If the fellow workers expected this, | big fish, and in a lecture upon the sub- ject of “Dictatorship or Liberation” recently reviewed in the DAILY WORKER, completely expose his the oretical nakedness, This horrible example of anarcho- syndicalism is probably -wholly un aware that he made a fool of himself agains “politicians,” some say 80. ; For the benefit of those who could The Muddile-Head International Some will cavil, I presume, that a “foreign” argument should be brought in to explain the lecture at the I. W. W. forum in Chicago on “Dictatorship or Liberation,” but anarcho-syndical- ist theory is the same the world over and foolishness is foolishness regard- less of geography. There is, it will be seen, an internationalism even among muddle-heads. And as this lit- tle dialogue illuminates so precisely the foolish arguments of the lecture against dictatorship, which took no ac. count of what class may hold the dic tatorship, I give it to the reader with the explanation that opens with the sensible worker asking the syndical- is the following question: “So, then, you are a syndicalist, and a libertarian? “Exactly. “Both at once or successively? “Both at once. “And how is that possible? “Bimply. That explains itself: I am a syndicalist because all power must go to the unions; I am a libertarian because I am against all power. It is very clear. 5 “Do you think so? I, on the con- trary, have to confess that I have un- derstood nothing. „Because you lack intelligence. Ah, ff you were only capable of under- standing individualized unionism! ... “Really, that is too much for my poor intelligence. Rut let us return to libertarian syndicalism, that, now. ig very hard... “No, it is very simple. I am against dictatorship, it matters not bf what party. I think that syndicalism or unlonism is enough of itself. “Let us... Let us see... Hach time I comprehend less. “How so? Are you a dumbbell? „Perhaps . . We are just going to gee ... Meanwhile, answer me this question: Are you with the revolu- tion? \ not politics? _ | direct action! 1 the power of the unions means e-co- no-mic power. Do you begin to un- derstand? “All that you tell me I understand! ... And what would you do with the bourgeoisie, who will murder your tellow workers and try to hang you all? “What a question! We will have them forget the taste of bread. “And what do you call that? Is that “It is revolution! “There is nothing better than to first understand the meaning of words, And while you will be beating the dirt out of the bourgeoisie, will not your position be—pardon my gall —a dictatorship? 7 “Nothing of the kind. That will be “Fine! After all we are... almost But I am one who yet. oes not dominate the vocabulary and I do not know the value of words... “By no means do we agree, because you want a dictatorship of a minority | over a majority. While we want the contrary. “We are going to see about that shortly. “It is seen already. “One moment. How many are there} of you syndicalists? “Somewhere around 30,000. When} we get all the other organized work- ers to leave their unions and come to us, We would have three or four mil- | lion. But, naturally, when the prole- tariat understands better, we will be more numerous. There are twenty millions of wage workers in this -oun- try. A day will come when these workers understand their rights bet- ter, and that day... “Meanwhile, you will not expect that all the workers will be organized in unions in order to make the reve lution? ) “Of course not. With a good active minority ... “You admit, then, that for a long time yet, the unions will embrace but a minority of the workers? “There arg so many ignorant, ego- istic, servile and cowardly ers. “Agreed. But, now you are advocat- ing a dictatorship of a minority of organized workers over a majority of unorganized, and over all the unor- ganizable: small farmers, petty bour- geoisie... “It isn’t possible to work any other way! Whose fault is it H. . “Certainly. But you are an advo- cate of the dictatorship of a minority. However, you were saying just the opposite a minute ago. “At least that minority is formed of a majority of class conscious pro- ducers ... “One minute... Suppose you take a union of one hundred members which has to make an important de- cision. General assembly. In the voting, there are fifty votes in favor, forty-nine opposed and one absten- sion. Which opinion has the force of law? “The one of the fifty, naturally. Work- LENIN. By Freda Eliman, Age 12 This is to every reader, About our dead beloved leader, Lenin! who for all the workers ; fought Oh! beloved one you have not died for'naught. = Lenin! your duty you have done; Some day our victory shall be won Let us get our enemies even with e rope The world victery is our best hope. A dear and brave leader was he, This every Junior worker can see, Your name in the workers’ history shall run And our victory some day will be won. From a Fellow Worker. My dear Comrades: I am not a subseriber of the DAILY WORK- ER, but I read it every day. As soon as spring comes, I am going from house to house and get customers for the DAILY WORKER, and I hope all the other young comrades and Juniors will do the same thing. I am only ten years old, and I hope you com- 5 rades will find a little space for these few words in the DAILY WORKER. On January 19 I read the Communist Children’s Column about Johnny and Billie. Hurrah for you, Johuny! You did good work on capitalist Billie! | My father received some kind of a membership card from the DAILY WORKER. My father is a of the I. W. W., too. On November 4 my father was put in jail. I will never forget the time when they came into the house afier him and handcuffed him and with the handcuffs on his arms lead him thru the streets. Yours fra — Fellow Workers got him out. R. B. 5-Day Week Not Yet. CLEVELAND.—Altho plasterers and lathers voted in favor of the fire day week, a majority of the unions in the Cleveland Building Trades Council wil maintain the 44-hour week for another year. — —— —